Turkey, Canada to elevate ties to strategic level, Erdogan says

The signal here is less the diplomatic language than the trade track: a formal FTA negotiation between Turkey and Canada would put a middle-power NATO pair on record about market access, and Ankara's push for "strategic" framing suggests it wants the relationship to carry economic weight, not just symbolic warmth. The absence of scope or timing details is the tell — the announcement is a commitment to talk, not a framework. What's worth watching is whether the talks actually launch before year-end and whether agriculture or services surface as the sticking points, since those are where middle-power FTAs usually stall.