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Locating Turkey Within Outer Space Politics – Analysis ( Source- Eurasia Review / Authors- Can Özcan and Xavier Quintana/ JTW)

Image credits-  Wikimedia Commons / NASA Source- Eurasia Review Author- Can Özcan and Xavier Quintana/ JTW In 2001, the Turkish National Security Council approved a decision titled ‘Establishing a Turkish Space Agency’, and a draft law will be submitted to the Turkish Parliament in the second half of 2016. What accounts for Turkey’s late entry to develop a major space program along with the independent capability to access space? Is Turkey on a path to address this shortcoming? If not, why? The politics of outer space involve planetary defense, asteroid mining, telecommunications, satellite projects, and the observation of Earth. The US-led Global Positioning System (GPS) is an integral part of space technology, whose function ranges from military survey and construction to farming, finance, and air traffic management. Russia, Japan and China are reluctant to be part of this system, and instead have followed their independent paths through the Glonass, Quasi-Zenith