(7 Mar 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Pan from traffic to exterior of Turkish prime minister's residence
2. Convoy carrying US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arriving
3. Various of Clinton's car outside residence
4. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Clinton and delegations sitting at meeting table
5. Clinton
6. Erdogan
7. Clinton, Erdogan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan (right) in meetings
8. Clinton
9. Meeting
10. Clinton's convoy leaving, zoom in as Clinton waves from inside the car
STORYLINE
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday for nearly two hours of talks at his residence in Ankara.
The two were thought to have discussed the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Turkey's contribution to Afghanistan's security and mediation for peace in the Middle East, as well as efforts to improve Turkey's ties with archrival Armenia.
After her meeting with Erdogan, Clinton met Foreign Minister Ali Babacan and was expected to address a joint news conference with him, before meeting President Abdullah Gul later in the day.
Turkey is a strategic ally in resolving several US problems: moving the US military out of Iraq, blocking Iran's nuclear ambitions and turning around the war in Afghanistan.
Turkey has been a supply route for US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and relations have improved after hitting a low in 2003 when Turkey refused to allow US forces use its territory as a staging ground for the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Turkey has said it is ready to serve as an exit route for US troops pulling out of Iraq.
The southern Incirlik air base has been used for transfer of US troops and equipment to Iraq and to Afghanistan.
Turkey, meanwhile, wants the US administration to prevent Congress from labelling the killing of Armenians by Turks a century ago as genocide.
Historians estimate that up to 1.5 (M) million Armenians were killed, an event widely viewed by genocide scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century.
Turkey denies that the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated, and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest.

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