Prime Minister Gordon Brown holds talks with Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan: photocall and press conference

Prime Minister Gordon Brown holds talks with Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan: photocall and press conference; Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Prime Minister of Turkey) press conference in Turkish followed by translation read out SOT - Distinguished members of the press, as you know, we are here today - I'm here with four ministers, members of the Turkish parliament, in the UK upon invitation by Prime Minister Gordon Brown. We also have in our delegation business people who are here to carry on some very productive and effective work and, in fact, our minister who has the portfolio for trade is going to be remaining in your country for the next two days to continue to have meetings on various sectors, so that discussions and developments in the area of business can continue and grow. - We have had today a very fruitful meeting, both as delegations and also one on one. We have political, military, economic, commercial and cultural ties between our two countries and the UK has always stood by Turkey and, first and foremost, especially in the area of EU accession and I am fully convinced that the UK will continue to stand by Turkey in the process forward. We also work closely in NATO and in line with that close collaboration we act together in many countries and we are working closely together in an important issue, which is Afghanistan and the work we do in Afghanistan together. And these constitute very good positive and concrete examples of the friendship - the process that we have between our two countries - On the economic front, the British investors are number one; they're at the top of the list as far as investment in Turkey is concerned, because there are approximately 2,200 firms who have invested in Turkey, which is not to say that we think it's sufficient. That there should in fact be - we believe there should be more investment coming to Turkey from the UK. And I am also fully convinced that we could have a lot of investment and business cooperation in third...