"The question asked by both Powell to Gul and by his Ambadassor in Ankara Eric Edelman to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last Monday was thesame: 'What can we do for you before the decision of December 17?'
"The Turkish side does not object to the help by U.S., however she wishes these efforts to be carried out not loudly but silently.
"Behind this suggestion, the painful experience at the Copenhagen Summit in December 2002, which was created by the loud intervention of President George Bush before the EU, lies.
"...The most important result of Erdogan-Edelman meeting can be summarized as follows: Both sides deem inevitable that the relations will carry on on a troublesome basis and the opinion differences will come out as long as the war in Iraq continues.
"The problem is seen at the question of how these dispute points will be "tolerated".
"At the meeting, it is understood that a new understanding was formed towards that "the critics be expressed as they should be between two allies and the disputes not to be allowed to overshadow the positive elements in the relations and the big photo."
