Alliance leaders meet, family photo

1. Wide shot of leaders walking into Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul, Turkey
2. Wide shot of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
3. Tight shot of Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer greeting Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski
3. French President Jacques Chirac shaking hands with Sezer
6. Chirac (left) with US President George Bush (centre), Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso (tipped to be the next European Commission President) enters from the left and wipes his brow before speaking
7. Medium shot of Chirac speaking to Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
8. British Prime Minister Tony Blair enters with his wife, Cherie, and shakes hands
9. Chirac and Blair chatting
10. German Chancellor Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder shakes hands
11. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi shakes hands with Sezer
12. Various shots of group photo
13. Leaders enter palace

STORYLINE:

Leaders from the newly expanded NATO gathered in Istanbul on Sunday for dinner before the start of the 26-member alliance summit.

The dinner was held at the historical Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul.

One of the main topics under discussion at the NATO summit on Monday and Tuesday will be the transfer of sovereignty to Iraq on June 30.

NATO nations will also discuss Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s urgent request for military training and equipment.

U.S. President George W. Bush, on his first trip to Turkey, has sought to bolster ties with his vital ally, a courtship complicated by terrorist threats to decapitate three Turks unless the country’s companies stop aiding U.S. forces in Iraq.

Pledging to fight for Turkey’s membership of the European Union, Bush held out Turkey as a model for the Middle East as he met with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, the capital earlier on Sunday.

He then flew to Istanbul attending a meeting with religious leaders and a photo opportunity with NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.

Bush is hoping his talks with Turkish leaders Sunday will smooth the U.S. partnership with the only Muslim nation in the Western alliance.

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