ANKARA (AFP) — Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has flown to the United States for talks with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

ANKARA (AFP) — Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has flown to the United States for talks with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, aimed at giving a modern boost to bilateral ties, badly do harm to by the US-led war in Iraq.

Gul was scheduled to keep possession of talks with Rice as well as with National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley upon Wednesday.

In remarks to reporters at the Ankara airport, Gul said he and Rice would unveil a "common vision document" outlining the sum of two units NATO allies' shared positions in succession international affairs.

He said the paper was not a treaty if it be not that a document "outlining a general vision on which both countries will work and exhaust efforts."

Turkish-US relations took a methodical blow ahead of Iraq's occupation in 2003 when the Turkish parliament repeled Washington's request to deploy soldiers in Turkey scuppering plans for a northern invasion of Iraq.

Relations have also