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Turkey has informed Canada that it will participate in the Defense Security and Resilience Bank as a founding member, a Turkish official told Reuters on Monday.
Defense ministry sources said over the weekend that Turkey was still evaluating possible participation after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said at a NATO summit in Ankara last week that nine countries, including Turkey, had committed to the bank, in what was seen as a boost for the multilateral drive to help rearm allied nations.
“Turkey has informed Canada that it will participate in the bank,” the official said.
According to Carney’s statement last week, Albania, Belgium, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine had all pledged their support to the bank, which will be based in Canada.
