Turkey 🇹🇷 under Erdoğan has spent years hosting Muslim Brotherhood figures, giving them platforms, and aligning with them against other Arab governments. Ankara has also openly supported Hamas, treated its leaders as partners, and allowed the group to operate from Turkish soil while condemning Israel for defending itself. Turkish authorities have detained journalists, purged the military and judiciary, jailed opposition politicians, and cracked down on dissent with methods that human-rights organizations have repeatedly documented. The government has also maintained relationships with other Islamist networks that Western intelligence services have flagged for terror financing and recruitment. That is the government Canada 🇨🇦 just elevated to a strategic partnership. @MarkJCarney @CanadianPM stood in Ankara, called Turkey an exceptional partner, and launched a three-year plan to expand trade, defence cooperation, energy ties, and people-to-people exchanges. Negotiators will sit down next month to start free-trade talks. Flights will increase. Defence industries will work more closely together. None of the statements mentioned the Brotherhood networks, the Hamas relationship, or the domestic repression. The Canadian government is treating this as a straightforward diversification win. It fits the pattern of the past several years. Ottawa has repeatedly prioritized engagement with regimes and movements that promote Islamist political projects while downplaying the practical consequences. The new partnership does not change Turkey’s record. It simply makes Canada a closer partner to a government that has already chosen its side.