Turkey may sign deal with Russia on cooperation in space industry

Turkey in the near future may sign an agreement with Russia on cooperation in the space sector, head of the Turkish Space Agency Serdar Huseyin Yildirim told TASS, Report informs.

"We are building bilateral relations with countries and with international organizations, which we have identified in accordance with our national goals. We keep working on common conditions of cooperation with different countries, including Russia. We have plans for signing an agreement in the near future," Yildirim said.

"Space exploration is a very complex and costly work. It requires high technologies, and for this reason international cooperation is very important in this field. Our goal at the international level is to establish firm relations of partnership with regional partners and with our neighbors. As far as Russia is concerned, we have vast opportunities in many fields of cooperation. We believe that we will be able to make much faster progress, if we manage to build firm relations of partnership based on mutually beneficial cooperation," he said.