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Getting a customized revolver together with his name engraved on it from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan was \u201cnot what I expected,\u201d Prime Minister Mark Carney\u00a0said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Carney said he \u201cnever saw it\u201d until British Prime Minister Kier Starmer told him in regards to the presents.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were having a conversation, just a few of us, and he [Starmer] identified to me that he received this and [it] had his name on it,\u201d Carney told reporters in Saudi Arabia Thursday.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI learned about it after which after all my colleagues told me, \u2018Yeah, we had this.\u2019 And it\u2019s not what I expected,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
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Erdogan offered the engraved handguns as a present to Carney and other NATO leaders on the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkiye.<\/p>\n
Carney said he gave Erdo\u011fan a bottle of Canadian maple syrup in return.<\/p>\n
Canadian government officials haven’t said what type of handgun Carney was gifted, but say the pistol will probably be decommissioned and the gun will probably be placed in a museum. Officials also said the ammunition was left in Turkiye.<\/p>\n
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Any gift received by a politician price greater than $200 have to be publicly declared, and any gift price greater than $1,000 have to be forfeited to the Crown under Canada\u2019s conflict of interest rules.<\/p>\n
A placard within the gift box says this was the primary kind of revolver manufactured in Turkiye within the Nineties and that the commemorative firearms were made by Turkish firm MKE.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson from Nauseda\u2019s office said that his gifted revolver is planned for exhibition within the Presidential Palace, like many other gifts given to the top of state.<\/p>\n
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