Last May, I found myself at Incheon International Airport in Seoul for an intensive round of conferences and meetings with institutions active in space diplomacy. At that moment, rather than comparing airports โ whether the innovative and expansive hub of my hometown, Istanbul or Seoulโs technologically sophisticated gateway was more impressive โ I reflected on the professional path that had brought me there and on what it revealed about the changing nature of space diplomacy.
Just a few weeks before Seoul, I had been at the European Space University in Strasbourg, where I organized a space security workshop under a NATO-funded project, bringing together experts on space diplomacy from across the world. Later, in October, I participated in Czech Space Week in Prague, engaging in conferences, meeting with the space industry, and interacting with space-related institutions.
Taken together, these experiences point me to a broader conclusion: Space diplomacy is not a peripheral or ad hoc activity, but
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