President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan extended his best wishes of success to Tuva Cihangir Atasever, Türkiye's second space traveller, during a video conference, reported the APA.
"You will be our second astronaut, but you won't be the last," said the President of Türkiye during the video conference, also mentioning the Azerbaijani flag that the astronaut carried into space.
Upon President Erdoğan's statement, "On one side will be the Turkish flag, and on the other the Azerbaijani flag, as your mother is Azerbaijani, and you will be representing both brotherly nations," Atasever said, "The flags of the Republic of Türkiye and Azerbaijan are shoulder to shoulder, side by side, so I will wear them on my chest when I travel through space."