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Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to Türkiye later this month, his office confirmed Tuesday, marking the first bilateral visit to the NATO member country by a sitting Canadian prime minister.
The trip, scheduled for October 21-23, will take Carney to Ankara for talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before he meets with business leaders in Istanbul, according to the announcement.
The visit is the latest stop in a monthslong effort by Carney to broaden Canada's economic ties beyond the United States, its largest trading partner.
In July, he became the first Canadian prime minister in 25 years to visit Saudi Arabia. He has also traveled to India and China in recent months, part of an attempt to rebuild relationships with Asian powers that had grown strained under his predecessor, Justin Trudeau.
In a statement announcing the trip, Carney described Türkiye as "an important NATO ally and G20 partner, with enormous potential for greater economic cooperation."
He added that the two countries are "deepening" their "partnership to build greater certainty, security, and prosperity for both" their "peoples."
Türkiye has been a member of NATO since 1952 and, like Canada, belongs to the Group of 20 major economies.
The country straddles Europe and Asia and has increasingly positioned itself as a diplomatic and economic bridge between Western nations and the Middle East and Central Asia.
Further details of Carney's itinerary, including the specific business figures he is expected to meet in Istanbul, have not yet been released.
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