Prime Minister Mark Carney has handed over the engraved pistol that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gave him at the NATO summit this week to the RCMP for decommissioning, the government says.
Carney, along with other world leaders, was presented a gun bearing his name, along with live ammunition, as he left the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on July 8. The Prime Minister’s Office has confirmed that all NATO leaders received personalized pistols from Erdoğan.
The RCMP will render the pistol incapable of firing, and the ammunition that came with the gift has been left in Turkey, Global Affairs Canada said in a media statement….