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Following the violent earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on the night of 6 February, the Italian Space Agency (ASI) has made satellite images from the COSMO-SkyMed radar constellation available

Turkey to invest in spaceport in Somalia, report says

Turkey wants to go to the Moon in 2023 and 2028

Russia and Turkey may begin their cooperation in the space sector with elaborating fair mechanisms to regulate joint use of outer space, Russian Ambassador to Turkey Alexei Yerkhov said in an article published in Monday’s issue of the Daily Sabah newspaper.

The President of Armenia, Armen Sarkissian, met with senior executives from French aerospace company Thales Group in Switzerland on 20 January 2020 in order to discuss several areas of interest in high technology, according to various reports in the Armenian press.

In a major policy speech delivered on 16 January 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan unveiled a range of large government infrastructure and technology projects for 2020 and beyond.

Indonesia is understood to be in talks with Russia’s state space corporation, Roscosmos, about the possibility of Russia training and launching the Southeast Asian country’s first astronaut.

Azercosmos, Turkey's leading digital broadcasting platform Digiturk, and mobile phone operator Vodafone signed cooperation agreements on 27 December 2019.

The government of the Central Asian state of Turkmenistan has announced that it has agreed to the technical requirements for the design, construction, and launch of its first Earth observation satellite, according to press reports in Turkmenistan.

Turkish President Erdogan issued a decree on 21 November 2019 that formally establishes the Turkish Space Agency. The presidential decree was published in an official gazette of the Turkish government.