Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that Moscow offered Ankara to establish cooperation in launching rockets into space, the Turkish leader told reporters on board his plane while returning from talks with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Sochi.
"We talked about Turkey's space research <...> Our delegations and teams will assess what steps can be taken regarding space. After that, we will set a timeline and a roadmap for this. Hopefully, we will move forward on this issue. In other words, there is a much more advanced proposal in space research. They suggested that we work together to build one platform on land and one at sea and launch rockets into space from them," he was quoted as saying by the NTV channel.
In February this year, the head of Turkey's Space agency, Serdar Hussein Yildirim, told TASS that Ankara would most likely use the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to fly its first cosmonaut.
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Based on materials from TASS