Özet:

Disarmament, which represents the condition of the limitation, control or elimination of war materials, comes from the past to the present in the beginning of important activities carried out on the way of the protection of international security. Although the issue of control and disarmament of weapons has lost its clarity in the post-Cold War period, it still remains a useful tool for ensuring international security. With the development of new weapons technologies, new discussions about disarmament have emerged. With significant technological developments in space discovery and use in the 1950s, the work on drawing the legal framework for space activities began. Since the beginning of the space age, it has been focused on the issue that the space will be used exclusively for peaceful purposes. Nevertheless, thanks to the activities through satellites, space has become an important military vehicle. Space operations were initially carried out by the hands of several state space-talent. Today, with the influence of developing technology and the increasing decline of world resources, the share of private effort in space activities has increased and the space has become a commercially consumable area. It appears that international actors who are becoming able to consume space are going to arms and militarize the space in order to preserve these advantages they gain in space or to gain new advantages on Earth through new developing technologies and manufactured weapons. This study aims to address the issue of weapons in space within the framework of space law and international law.