渥太华，10月6日——加拿大总理马克·卡尼的办公室周二表示，卡尼将于10月21日至23日前往安卡拉和伊斯坦布尔，这将是加拿大领导人首次对北约盟友土耳其进行专门的双边访问。
OTTAWA, Oct 6 - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to Ankara and Istanbul from October 21 to 23, his office said on Tuesday, in what will be the first dedicated bilateral visit to NATO ally Turkey by a Canadian leader.
路透社率先报道了此次访问。此举标志着卡尼在寻求减少对加拿大最大贸易伙伴美国的依赖后，再次打破加拿大外交惯例，此前双方于8月贸易谈判破裂。
The visit, which was first reported by Reuters, would mark Carney's latest break with Canadian diplomatic convention as he seeks to reduce the country's reliance on the United States, by far its biggest trading partner, after a collapse in trade talks in August.
加拿大总理办公室在声明中表示，卡尼将在安卡拉与土耳其总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安会面，并致力于在能源和矿业、气候以及国防和安全等领域加强双边关系。
Carney will meet with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara and work toward bolstering bilateral relations in areas including energy and mining, climate, and defence and security, the prime minister's office said in a statement.
他将在伊斯坦布尔与土耳其商界领袖和投资者会面，并宣传加拿大作为贸易和投资目的地的吸引力。
He will meet with Turkish business leaders and investors in Istanbul and tout Canada as an attractive destination for trade and investment.
卡尼办公室表示：“总理将强调在优先领域扩大日益增长的贸易关系的机会，包括能源、航空航天、先进技术和矿业及关键矿产。”
"The Prime Minister will emphasize opportunities to expand that growing trade relationship in priority sectors, including energy, aerospace, advanced technologies, and mining and critical minerals," Carney's office said.
卡尼已承诺在未来十年内将加拿大对非美贸易额翻一番，并急于与包括中国和印度在内的多个国家建立联系，尽管加拿大与这些国家过去曾存在紧张关系。
Carney has vowed to double Canada's non-US trade over the next decade and has rushed to establish ties with a host of countries, including China and India, with which it had past strains.
卡尼和埃尔多安于7月在北约领导人峰会上正式启动了自由贸易协定的谈判。土耳其已同意加入加拿大国防安全与韧性银行，成为卡尼多边“中等强国”银行的10个创始成员国之一。
Carney and Erdogan formally launched negotiations for a free-trade agreement at the NATO leaders' summit in July. Turkey has agreed to join Canada's Defence Security and Resilience Bank as one of 10 founding member nations of Carney's multilateral "middle powers" bank.