{"id":785970,"date":"2026-07-07T11:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785970\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:54:08","slug":"canada-turkey-formally-launch-talks-on-a-free-trade-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785970\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, Turkey formally launch talks on a free-trade agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">July 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Canada and Turkey have \u200cformally launched negotiations \u200cfor a free-trade agreement (FTA), Canadian \u200bPrime Minister Mark Carney&#8217;s office said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The technical teams \u200cfrom both \u2060countries will undertake the necessary work \u2060to define the scope and ambition \u200bof the \u200bagreement \u200band prepare \u200cfor the first round of negotiations,&#8221; the office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The move follows \u200can agreement last \u200bmonth by \u200bCanadian \u200band Turkish \u200ctrade ministers to begin \u200bexploratory \u200bdiscussions aimed at concluding a free-trade \u200bagreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting \u200cby Ruchika Khanna in \u200bBengaluru; Editing by \u200bSusan Fenton)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Canada and Turkey have \u200cformally launched negotiations \u200cfor a free-trade agreement (FTA), Canadian \u200bPrime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,56764,2659,3425,44,277883,3848],"class_list":["post-785970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-free-trade-agreement","tag-mark-carney","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-technical-teams","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785970","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=785970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}