Carney Defends Expanded Türkiye Ties Amid Rights Concerns
Prime Minister Mark Carney defended plans to deepen Canada’s trade and defense partnership with Turkey despite concerns about the country’s human-rights record, saying “engagement is not approval” and describing his approach as values-based realism. The partnership could expand cooperation in energy, including potential Canadian nuclear-reactor sales, while critics warn it may lend legitimacy to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s increasingly authoritarian government.
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About Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a Turkish politician who has been the president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he co-founded in 2001. He also served as mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. Coming from an Islamist background and promoting socially conservative policies, Erdoğan has been Turkey's de facto leader since 2003. Turkey has experienced democratic backsliding and suppression of dissent under Erdoğan.
Everything about Recep Tayyip Erdoğan →- Occupation
- statesperson, politician, party leader
- Position held
- President of Turkey, Prime Minister of Turkey, member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, mayor of Istanbul
- Citizenship
- Turkey
- Born
- February 26, 1954
- Website
- https://www.tccb.gov.tr
