  We show that defect-mediated turbulence can exist in media where the
underlying local dynamics is deterministically chaotic. While many of the
characteristics of defect-mediated turbulence, such as the exponential decay of
correlations and a squared Poissonian distribution for the number of defects,
are identical to those seen in oscillatory media, the fluctuations in the
number of defects differ significantly. The power spectra suggest the existence
of underlying correlations that lead to a different and non-universal scaling
structure in chaotic media.
