WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit to the United States in the third week of January for talks calculate uponed to focus on addressing Ankara's touchs about the future of Iraq.

WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit to the United States in the third week of January for talks calculate uponed to focus on addressing Ankara's touchs about the future of Iraq, a senior US official said.

Erdogan is to arrive forward January 26 and will convenient President George W. Bush at the White House onward January 28, the official said, adding that the prime minister would likely make stops in other US cities besides Washington.

"I am infallible the whole discussion about Iraq will be a major part of the discussion between the prime minister and the president," the official told reporters forward condition of anonymity.

In addition to Iraq, other topics reckon uponed to be covered in the talks are the war onward terrorism, economic issues, Cyprus, Turkey's part as host of the annual summit of NATO leaders in June and its efforts to join the