UN Erdogan gifts every NATO leader an engraved revolver and a box of live ammunition - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who disclosed the gesture to journalists on the flight home, was unable to bring his back to Britain, where importing the weapon would be illegal.

A Sarsilmaz SR 38 revolver, made in Türkiye, pictured with ammunition, accessed on July 8, 2026.
(Photo via Sarsilmaz)

Erdogan presented every NATO leader attending the Ankara summit with a surprising choice of gift: a revolver engraved with their name and a box of live rounds.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who disclosed the gesture to journalists on the flight home, was unable to bring his back to Britain, where importing the weapon would be illegal.

His revolver stays in Ankara, to be decommissioned, despite Erdogan having provided a personal note waiving Türkiye's export controls.

Starmer shared the detail with reporters on the flight home from Ankara, describing the revolvers as a surprising choice from the Turkish president.

Erdogan also supplied each leader with a note personally waiving Türkiye's export controls on the weapon, an unusual step that nonetheless could not resolve the legal situation Starmer faced upon return to Britain.

It is not clear whether other NATO leaders faced similar obstacles to bringing their weapons home.

Starmer's situation was specific to British firearms law, which has imposed strict controls on the import and private possession of handguns since the Dunblane massacre of 1996 prompted a near-total ban.

The Ankara summit and Erdogan as host​

The gifts were presented on the margins of the 36th NATO Summit, held July 7-8 at Türkiye's Presidential Complex in Ankara, the first NATO summit hosted by Türkiye since Istanbul in 2004.

Erdogan and First Lady Emine Erdogan personally welcomed alliance leaders at the complex, hosting a reception and state dinner on the opening evening.

The summit itself was dominated by questions of defence spending, support for Ukraine, and the prospect of renewed American arms sales to Ankara, including a potential reversal of the longstanding ban on F-35 fighter jet sales to Türkiye.

Erdogan's written waiver of Türkiye's export controls showed an apparent awareness that the weapons might encounter scrutiny at borders.

For Starmer, the note resolved only the Turkish side of the equation. British law was not so easily waived.

The prime minister returned home without the revolver. It will be decommissioned in Türkiye, leaving Starmer with the story, and not the gun.

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[Chunky Salsa]

Fucking cool.

 

[JosephStalin]

Based! Starmer's a pussy. Am sure President Trump is bringing his home.

 

[William Murderface]

Because the Prime Minister can't somehow get his own country's customs waived for an official gift. Even if all he did was stick it in a museum.

What a pussy.

 

[Übertroon]

Would give a whole other meaning if the revolver came with a single bullet in the cylinder

 

[James X Maxwell]

Was Dunblane a psyop or false flag to get rid of handguns?

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Was Dunblane a psyop or false flag to get rid of handguns?

From what I have seen of the case it very much seems like they let it happen specifically to let them pass anti-gun legislation. Don't have sources on me but the shooter was a literal retard and there was a bunch of warning signs that were ignored.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

The prime minister returned home without the revolver. It will be decommissioned in Türkiye, leaving Starmer with the story, and not the gun.

I feel like this is all that needs to be said to describe the state of the UK military right now. They're in no position to do anything, their leaders are cowards and they're more terrified of what a weapon might do, and lack any respect towards what it represents.

 

[Otterly]

was unable to bring his back to Britain, where importing the weapon would be illegal.

What a shame, and he didn’t just use it on himself then and there? Such a waste.

 

[CasketBase]

Because the Prime Minister can't somehow get his own country's customs waived for an official gift. Even if all he did was stick it in a museum.

Low-iq and unimaginative, more like. I'm sure there were completely legal ways for him to gracefully accept the gun, take it back to the UK and stick it in some museum or dispose of it properly in some other decent way. Accept, turn over to his own security detail to secure and take back to UK, write a letter to the military exaplining the gun's origin and meaning and requesting its addition to whatever military-adjacent museum's collection. Something like that. I'm sure one of his aides or other companions knew something that could've been done in that scenario, or could've quickly hashed that shit out with London right then and there. He's the PM ffs. He just couldn't, or didn't want to, figure that shit out.

 

[Dufe]

It might have generated some testosterone, and old Queir couldnt have that!

 

[Oilspill Battery]

Would give a whole other meaning if the revolver came with a single bullet in the cylinder

That is literally the first thing I thought as well.

 

[Skitarii]

Erdogan telling nato leaders to kill themselves was not in 2026 bingo card

 

[Adrian Dittmann]

You were supposed to use it before returning home, some politicians have such low EQ.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

I'll take his

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

I want to see them livestream a group game of Russian Roulette to see who's the last man standing.

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

Would give a whole other meaning if the revolver came with a single bullet in the cylinder

That's the opposite of what NATO stands for.

 

[not william stenchever]

I would consider this a formal resignation from NATO and a declaration that the UK has fully embraced not being a real country, then take their nukes because we can't let queer starmer give them to islamists openly, but nobody lets me make decisions.

 

[Snekposter]

Erdogan telling nato leaders to kill themselves was not in 2026 bingo card

Considering it was made by roaches there's a 50/50 chance it grenades itself even if they try and use it properly. Wikipedia calls the SR 38 a S&W clone but it looks more like a Taurus clone. And I can't imagine a Turk-made knockoff of a Taurus piece somehow being safe to shoot.

 

[Dr J]

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who disclosed the gesture to journalists on the flight home, was unable to bring his back to Britain, where importing the weapon would be illegal.

The Home Secretary has dispensation to allow whoever she wants to carry whatever guns they want, and the Home Secretary does whatever Queer Starmer tells her to do.

This is just another bloody virtue signal from that impotent twat