Turkish Space Agency#National Space Program

{{Short description|National space agency of Turkey}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}

{{Infobox space agency

| name = Turkish Space Agency

| native_name = Türkiye Uzay Ajansı

| seal = Logo of Turkish Space Agency (English).svg

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| acronym = TUA

| owner = Ministry of Industry and Technology

| established = {{start date and age|2018|12|13|df=y}}

| headquarters = Ankara, Turkey

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| administrator = Yusuf Kıraç{{cite web|url=https://www.ntv.com.tr/turkiye/son-dakika-haberi-atama-kararlari-resmi-gazetede,k6NMnq_MhU6GVGQ1WAJg|title=SON DAKİKA HABERİ: Atama kararları Resmi Gazete'de|publisher=ntv.com|date= |accessdate=8 October 2023|language=Turkish}}

| budget = ₺2.35 billion {{small|(2025)}}{{cite web|accessdate=14 January 2025 |last1=Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye |publisher=T.C. Resmî Gazete|title=2025 Yılı Merkezi Yönetim Bütçe Kanunu |url=https://www.sbb.gov.tr/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2025-Yili-Merkezi-Yonetim-Butce-Kanun-Teklifi-ve-Bagli-Cetveller.pdf |author1-link=President of Turkey }}

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| URL = {{url|https://tua.gov.tr/en}}

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The Turkish Space Agency ({{langx|tr|Türkiye Uzay Ajansı}}, TUA) is a government agency for national aerospace research as a part of the space program of Turkey. It was formally established by a presidential decree on 13 December 2018.

Headquartered in Ankara, the agency is subordinated to the Ministry of Industry and Technology. With the establishment of TUA, the Department for Aviation and Space Technologies at the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure was abolished. TUA prepares strategic plans that include medium and long-term goals, basic principles and approaches, objectives and priorities, performance measures, methods to be followed and resource allocation for aerospace science and technologies.

TUA works in close collaboration with the TÜBİTAK Space Technologies Research Institute (TÜBİTAK UZAY). It is administrated by an executive board of seven members. The tenure of board members, the chairperson excluded, is three years.

Internationally, TUA currently has agreements with Ukraine, Hungary and Kazakhstan's space programs, and claims to conduct extensive nation-wide assessments regarding membership to ESA since 2020 as part of Turkey's cooperation agreement with the agency in 2004.{{Cite web |title=International Cooperations - Turkish Space Agency |url=https://tua.gov.tr/en/international-activities/international-cooperations |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=tua.gov.tr |language=tr}}{{Cite web |title=ESA signs Cooperation Agreement with Turkey |url=https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Business_with_ESA/ESA_signs_Cooperation_Agreement_with_Turkey |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=www.esa.int |language=en}}