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- Prime Minister Mark Carney signed a strategic trade and defence partnership with Turkey Thursday.
- The pact includes deeper defence, energy cooperation and plans for free-trade talks.
- Carney said AtkinsRealis has good chances to partner on two Turkish power-plant projects.
- He defended Canada’s values-based realism, stating engagement does not endorse Turkey’s human-rights record.
- Carney and wife Diana Fox Carney visited Istanbul’s Kariye Mosque, ending the first bilateral Canadian visit to Turkey.