OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney was gifted a personalized revolver and ammunition by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the conclusion of the NATO summit in Ankara.<\/p>\n
Erdogan gave each visiting NATO leader a handgun with their name engraved on it as a gift.<\/p>\n
Global Affairs Canada says the RCMP is having the weapon decommissioned so it no longer fires and that the ammunition was left in Turkey.<\/p>\n
Canadian government officials have not said what kind of handgun Carney was gifted, but say they will look for a suitable home for the gun such as a museum.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
A handout photo from the office of Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda shows a Gumusay .357 Revolver with his name engraved on the barrel, the Turkish crescent moon and star on the frame and a small plaque on the grip that says “Ankara Summit.”<\/p>\n
A placard in the gift box says this was the first type of revolver manufactured in Turkey in the 1990s and that the commemorative firearms were made by Turkish firm MKE.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson from Nauseda’s office said that his gifted revolver is planned to be exhibited in the Presidential Palace, like many other gifts given to the head of state.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 9, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney was gifted a personalized revolver and ammunition by Turkish President Recep Tayyip…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[41433,1273,41435,111,290,691,113,41437,41434,41436,3712,41432,1197],"class_list":["post-122965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-ballistics","tag-firearms","tag-gift","tag-mark-carney","tag-national","tag-nato","tag-politics","tag-politics-of-turkey","tag-projectile-weapons","tag-projectiles","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-revolver","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}