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2026-10-22 19:16:35 UTC

WarMonitor on Nostr: During his visit to Türkiye today, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a ...

During his visit to Türkiye today, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a new strategic partnership between the two countries.

According to Carney and subsequent reports, the partnership will be built around four pillars: economic trade and investment, defense cooperation, energy agreements, and cultural and people-to-people ties.

The announcement comes as Canada, amid ongoing strategic tensions with the United States, increasingly seeks to expand cooperation with other nations across multiple sectors in an effort to diversify its partnerships and advance its broader strategic objectives.

Key areas of potential cooperation include feasibility discussions on joint projects to expand Türkiye’s nuclear power capacity, greater defense industry cooperation, and investments in key Turkish industries, including critical minerals.

Defense cooperation is particularly notable, as Canada had previously imposed restrictions on certain defense exports to Türkiye amid concerns over Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s increasingly authoritarian tendencies.