(4 Apr 2009)
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1. Wide of Turkish delegation motorcade arriving
2. Helicopter patrolling NATO summit venue
3. Turkish President Abdullah Gul arriving at NATO press centre in Strasbourg
4. Gul walking
5. Gul entering press room
6. Various of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi outside NATO media centre
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7. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister
"I have been charged by the current secretary-general De Hoop (Jaap de hoop Scheffer) of contacting directly Turkey's prime minister Tayyip Erdogan. I called him yesterday evening and I had with him this morning a 32 minute talk on the phone. I don't understand why the media made a scandal out of this, saying that I didn't greet Angela Merkel, but Mrs Merkel knew very well that I was on the phone with Erdogan, because I told her stepping out of the car, I walked away to continue my work of negotiation. It was very important."
8. Cutaway of journalist
9. Berlusconi leaving news conference
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10. Berlusconi and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero outside press centre, preparing to leave
STORYLINE:
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi accused reporters of scandal mongering after creating a stir on Saturday by making German chancellor Angela Merkel wait while he chatted on his mobile phone with Turkey's prime minister about who should become NATO's new chief.
Berlusconi later told reporters he was making a last minute attempt to persuade Recep Tayyip Erdogan to accept Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen as the 28-member alliance's new chief.
Later, NATO announced that Fogh Rasmussen would succeed de Hoop Scheffer.
Berlusconi was seen chatting on his mobile phone as he got out of his car on the German side of the Rhine River before a symbolic walk across the Europa Bridge that links Germany and France.
In images shown live on European television stations, Berlusconi appeared to gesture to his phone to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as if to explain why he wasn't proceeding with other NATO leaders to be greeted by her.
Merkel eventually went ahead without Berlusconi, who was deep in conversation and walked toward the bank of the river as he talked on the phone instead of joining the other chiefs of state.

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