Conference on border tension, Kurdish rebels, begins

(2 Nov 2007) 1. Wide shot of Iraq meeting 2. Mid shot of official 3. Various of people speaking at conference 4. Wide pan of conference 5. Turkish representative (not the foreign minister) 5. US representative 6. Pan from media to wide shot of meeting STORYLINE: Senior officials began working level meetings during a conference on Iraq in Istanbul on Friday. The conference, which is likely to be dominated by talk about the crisis on the Iraqi-Turkish border, is expected to be attended by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is due to arrive on Friday to meet Turkey's President Abdullah Gul. Ban will later travel to Istanbul to attend the international conference. Also on Friday US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was meeting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other high-ranking officials in the Turkish capital Ankara. The meeting is part of an intense campaign to prevent Turkey from sending its troops across the border into northern Iraq to fight Kurdish guerrillas. Washington worries that such a cross-border incursion would bring instability to what has been the calmest part of Iraq, and could set a precedent for other countries, like Iran, who also have conflicts with Kurdish rebels. But Ankara has been resolute that it wants to hear concrete measures that the United States will take against the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, or it will launch an attack. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...