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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to raise Turkey-Canada relations to the level of a strategic partnership during meetings at the Presidential Complex, which included a one-on-one meeting, a heads-of-delegation session and the signing of three agreements between the two countries.

Speaking at the joint news conference afterwards, Erdoğan said the two sides want to lift trade volume, currently running at about $3 billion, first to $5 billion and then to $10 billion, and to launch free trade agreement talks before the end of the year.