“Hungarians and Turks have expressed a desire, but there are no technical movements,” he said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
According to him, Ankara announced its intention to send a Turkish cosmonaut to the ISS on the Soyuz two years ago, but the country has not finally decided on this issue.
“If nothing happens again, then everything will creep (according to the terms. -
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),” Krikalev added.
In November 2019, Roscosmos reported on negotiations with Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia regarding possible flights of their citizens into space.
Around the same time, the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin invited Turkey to join the project to operate the Baikonur cosmodrome together with Russia and Kazakhstan.
He assured Ankara of its readiness to provide rockets for launching Turkish spacecraft into orbit.