{"id":127422,"date":"2026-07-13T06:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/127422\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T06:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:49:06","slug":"turkey-informed-canada-that-it-will-participate-in-global-defence-bank-turkish-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/127422\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey informed Canada that it will participate in global defence bank, Turkish official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By Nevzat Devranoglu<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ANKARA, July 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Turkey has informed Canada that it will participate \u200cin the Defence Security and Resilience Bank \u200cas a founding member, a Turkish official told Reuters on \u200bMonday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Defence ministry sources said over the weekend that Turkey was still evaluating possible participation after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said at a NATO \u200csummit in Ankara \u2060last week that nine countries, including Turkey, had committed to the bank, in \u2060what was seen as a boost for the multilateral drive to help rearm allied nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Turkey has \u200binformed Canada \u200bthat it will \u200bparticipate in the bank,&#8221; \u200cthe official said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Carney&#8217;s statement last week, Albania, Belgium, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine had all pledged their support to the bank, which will be based in Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The roster \u200ccontained no heavyweight G7 \u200bnations other than Canada, potentially \u200blimiting the bank&#8217;s \u200bfinancial firepower, although Canada&#8217;s foreign minister, \u200cAnita Anand, told Reuters it \u200bwould remain \u200bopen to new members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bank&#8217;s purpose is to bolster the defence of like-minded allied nations \u200bby raising \u200cup to \u00a3100 billion ($134 billion) in cheap financing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting \u200bby Nevzat Devranoglu; Writing by Daren Butler; \u200bEditing by Thomas Derpinghaus)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Nevzat Devranoglu ANKARA, July 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Turkey has informed Canada that it will participate \u200cin the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,42568,445,42569,1197],"class_list":["post-127422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-defence-ministry","tag-prime-minister-mark-carney","tag-the-defence-security-and-resilience-bank","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127422","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=127422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}