President Gul, attends NATO summit

President Abdullah Gul, accompanied by Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul, yesterday arrived in Bucharest, Romania, to attend a NATO summit. Speaking to reporters at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport, Gul said that during the gathering, the prospective NATO memberships of Albania, Croatia and Macedonia, relations with Georgia and Ukraine, policies on the Balkans, and operations in Afghanistan and Kosovo would be taken up. Asked if Ankara would send additional troops to Afghanistan, Gul said that Ankara was very interested in the county's situation, but had no plans to send additional soldiers.