Getting a personalized revolver with his name engraved on it from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was “not what I expected,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday.
Carney said he “never saw it” until British Prime Minister Kier Starmer told him about the presents.
“I learned about it and then of course my colleagues told me, ‘Yeah, we had this.’ And it’s not what I expected,” he added.
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Erdogan offered the engraved handguns as a gift to Carney and other NATO leaders at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkiye.
Carney said he gave Erdoğan a bottle of Canadian maple syrup in return.
Canadian government officials have not said what kind of handgun Carney was gifted, but say the pistol will be decommissioned and the gun will be placed in a museum. Officials also said the ammunition was left in Turkiye.
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“I certainly don’t have a licence for it,” Carney said.
Any gift received by a politician worth more than $200 must be publicly declared, and any gift worth more than $1,000 must be forfeited to the Crown under Canada’s conflict of interest rules.
A placard in the gift box says this was the first type of revolver manufactured in Turkiye in the 1990s and that the commemorative firearms were made by Turkish firm MKE.
A spokesperson from Nauseda’s office said that his gifted revolver is planned for exhibition in the Presidential Palace, like many other gifts given to the head of state.
–with files from The Canadian Press
Duhhh my mommy told me I have a high IQ. Now I spend my lonely pathetic life on the internet copying people’s names. Duhhh constitooshunel rites. Alberta Strong! Alberta proud!
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More comments from people who didnt actually read the article 🙄
Turkey is an ally, and NATO member, not a fascist state.
A gun is a tool, just like you and we don’t call you a fascist.
Man, are all these fascist leaders nuts like that? Just give em all a gun and ammunition, at a NATO meeting. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha1 Thats too funny. Was he hoping they would all shoot each other?
Don’t mind me,this story was the closest thing I could find as an outlet for my raging TDS.Because I am so unstable it either this or getting arrested again for running around my neighborhood, buck naked ,committing lewd acts with various forms of shrubbery at 2:30 am.
I flushed a conservative today
July 9, 2026 at 3:27 pm
MAJORITY GOVERNMENT YOU WHINING CON GOOFS.
Proof positive that Liberals are ugly, angry f*scists. Forever taunting, jeering, running off at the mouth. Forever showing that shoe size IQ of theirs. Nothing but immature little trumpys running all over the place.
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The white supremacist Conservatives are trying so hard and failing even harder. Maybe if they weren’t a bunch of inbred rednecks they’d be smart enough to win an election but from what I’ve seen in this comment section that definitely isn’t happening anytime soon LOL
If you’re going to make up stories about me being a half-chug that works at McDonalds at least you can get my name right LOL. Showing off that high IQ again hey dumbass 🤣🤣
MAJORITY GOVERNMENT YOU WHINING CON GOOFS.
Being a Liberal, Carney probably pinched the revolver with two fingers and said ” Eww ,a gun.”
Carney has just been busy sucking everyone’s co ck. Not that there’s anything wrong with that in a way. At work, I suck a lot of co ck in the stalls at McDonald’s. Every customer leaves happy.
Carney handled this well diplomatically given our gun laws.
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Anyone interested in trading child porn? Preferably little boys. Don’t worry about the cops. It’s my constitutional right as an Albertan (Not a Canadian) to express my love for little boys. Alberta Strong! Alberta Proud!
What an insult to the Turks. They must be snickering about what a bunch of pansys Canadians are that they can’t even defend themselves. But we got tampons in mens army washrooms…
You know what, I really don’t care. As long as my azz is getting well filled with c um from my half-chug boyfriend, all is well.
Jay Vorhees, its the left that commit political violence. You can project all you want but your side is the side of derangement and murder
Buddy better have his PAL or toss it to the RCMP when he gets back.
Typical Canadian news story. No mention of WHAT was presented but a lot of hype with no information. It was a Gümüşay .357 Magnum.
Produced by Kürtün Silah Sanayii ve Ticaret A.Ş. (KÜSSAN) in Gümüşhane, Türkiye. The factory is no longer in operation, making the revolver somewhat of a rare collector’s item.
Has Carney passed the Canadian Firearms Safety Course and obtained his PAL licence to own or possess a firearm ?? If not then he is illegally possessing and owning a firearm under the Canadian Criminal Code and should be prosecuted. Just as he is so quick to threaten lawful firearm owners in Canada. Will he be charged by the RCMP on arrival in Canada ? No, Why ? Because we all know there is a double standard when it comes to the Liberal elites in Canada.
Don’t worry. He’s not a MAGA/ICE supporter so he won’t be shooting anyone
I think this is a horrible idea considering criminals should not be given firearms
Be interating to see how they spin his violation of Canadian law after pandering to all the anti gun nuts