(8 Mar 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Tilt down from Iraqi and Turkish flags to police
2. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani getting off plane
3. Talabani greeting officials
4. Talabani inside car, waving
5. Mid of Turkish President Abdullah Gul, zoom out as car arrives, zoom in as Gul greets Talabani
6. Close-up of handshake, tilt to their faces
7. Talabani and Gul entering building
8. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Jalal Talabani, Iraqi President:
++NON VERBATIM TRANSLATION++
"We asked the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) to lay down their weapons or leave the Northern Iraq. Because we could not tolerate a group which is threatening the security and peace of our powerful and friendly neighbour Turkey."
9. Close-up of cameramen
10. SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) Abdullah Gul, Turkish President:
"I want to stress again that there will not be any chance for people who live with arms and support terrorism."
11. Zoom of Talabani and Gul shaking hands
12. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan shaking hands with Talabani, zoom in
13. Various of official dinner
STORYLINE
Iraq's president insisted on Friday that Kurdish rebels would not be tolerated inside its borders as he sought to allay tensions following neighbouring Turkey's eight-day military mission inside Iraq.
Speaking during a visit to Turkey, Jalal Talabani said that Iraq was continuing to put pressure on Kurdish rebels to lay down their arms and said the two countries would discuss wide-ranging security measures to combat their threat.
"We asked the PKK to lay down their weapons or leave the Northern Iraq. Because we could not tolerate a group which is threatening the security and peace of our powerful and friendly neighbour Turkey," Talabani said.
Talabani was greeted by the Turkish deputy prime minister, Cemil Cicek, in a low-key arrival at the airport in Ankara.
No honour guard was present, and no military ceremony was held when he arrived at the presidential palace.
The visit by Talabani, himself a Kurd, reflected diplomatic efforts to ease tensions after an operation that some had feared could spill into a wider conflict between two US allies.
Turkey launched a cross-border ground operation against rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, who launch attacks on Turkey from bases in northern Iraq.
The eight day operaton started on February 21.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul called on the rebels to lay down their arms.
"I want to stress again that there will not be any chance for people who live with arms and support terrorism," Gul said.
In the latest reported violence, suspected Kurdish rebels killed a civilian and took another hostage on Friday in a southern Turkish province near the border with Syria, a local official told state-run media.
Along with military ties, energy cooperation and other economic issues are on top of the agenda between the two countries, Gul's office said.
The Iraqi delegation included the country's ministers of finance, oil and industry, as well as the deputy foreign minister, according to the independent Voices of Iraq news agency.
Several other senior political figures were accompanying Talabani, who was making his first trip to Turkey since his 2005 election, the news agency said.
Turkey's previous president, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, declined to invite Talabani to visit amid tension over the activities of Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq.
Some in Turkey accused Iraqi Kurdish leaders of not doing enough to curb the rebels.
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