Trend News Agency/Azernews
June 3, 2022

Turkey will be the front of the space race: Erdogan

Turkey will be in the forefront of the space war thanks to its dedicated youth, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, informing that there is a great interest in the government’s project of sending a Turkish citizen to space in 2023…

“We will be in the space race, and we will be at the forefront. Maybe the Turkish citizens who we will send to space are with us in this hall today. And we will greet him or her on his or her return from space,” Erdogan said at a meeting with high school students at an award ceremony for the science projects held by the Turkish presidency on June 2.

“We will win this race thanks to you, the Teknofest youth, whose eyes are on space,” Erdogan stated.

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“If they have their Neil Armstrong, we have our own Ahmets, Ayşes and Fatmas,” Erdogan stated….