Topic: Private Sector Access to Outer Space
Country: Turkey
Delegate Name: Humza Nadeem
School: Forest Hills Northern High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Turkey position papers GLIMUN 2016 committees
Turkey is a developing country with a very large population and a strong military and government. We are not a country that is weak, or needs help to support ourselves. Turkey wants better access to technology and they want to expand their research into development for space.
Turkey does have access to a private sector for research and technological development. The Turkish private sector has been rising to development since 2008. They want to utilize outer space as an educational resource for the youth. There is already progress in this direction, such as the meetings between Turkey and the ESA(European Space Agency). Also, a new project is being established for a RadarSat ground station in Istanbul.
We have been looking in to cooperation with other organizations, the first example of cooperation with other organizations was with the NSS(National Space Society). The hopes being that Turkey can gain some kind of technology or something useful to be able to teach the interested youth about space. A project that SRWG will work on will be to establish a National Space Databank. This data bank will provide new research possibilities and for national and international space research to be possible. Right now the SRWG is currently working on getting in touch with Turkey to see and develop Turkeys potential in space. Through formal/informal meetings, we will try to make this data bank succeed.
Overall, if Turkey was able to gain access to space travel or be able to obtain the technology they need to build and adcance their space field, it would give the country a lot more recognition. They would be put on the media and people would want to tour Turkey to see its space field and the economy would grow exponentially. New jobs for people who are qualified, consumers will want to buy more space related products. All these things could effect the country in positive ways.
