{"id":724621,"date":"2026-06-09T06:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724621\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T06:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:36:09","slug":"turkey-canada-agree-to-launch-exploratory-talks-on-free-trade-statement-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724621\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey, Canada agree to launch exploratory talks on free trade, statement says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">ISTANBUL, June 9 (Reuters) &#8211; The trade ministers of Turkey and Canada \u200chave agreed to launch \u200cexploratory discussions aimed at concluding a free trade \u200bagreement, according to a joint ministerial statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The statement said Turkish Trade Minister Omer Bolat and \u200cCanada&#8217;s Minister \u2060of International Trade Maninder Sidhu had met to advance \u2060the strong and growing economic partnership between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;They agreed \u200bto launch \u200bexploratory discussions \u200btoward a free \u200ctrade agreement, a step that reflects the ambition of both countries to unlock the full potential of the commercial partnership,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">It \u200csaid they identified \u200benergy as a promising \u200barea for \u200bexpanded cooperation and agreed \u200cto explore opportunities in \u200brenewable energy, \u200bas well as in nuclear energy, including the potential of \u200bCanadian CANDU \u200ctechnology to support Turkey&#8217;s diversification \u200bgoals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Can Sezer; Editing \u200bby Daren Butler)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISTANBUL, June 9 (Reuters) &#8211; The trade ministers of Turkey and Canada \u200chave agreed to launch \u200cexploratory discussions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,10864,56764,261678,44,3848],"class_list":["post-724621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-free-trade","tag-free-trade-agreement","tag-minister-omer-bolat","tag-news","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}