(21 Oct 2005)

1. Helicopter carrying Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lands
2. Erdogan is greeted by Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz
3. Various of Erdogan and Aziz being briefed by military officials
4. Wide of Turkish rescue team in line
5. Female rescue worker
6. Various of Erdogan shaking hands with aid workers
7. Interior of Turkish field hospital with patients in beds
8. Various of Erdogan and Aziz talking to patients
9. SOUNDBITE (Turkish through English translator) Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Prime Minister:
"It is indeed a great disaster, it looks like it is flat with the ground. We are here because we want to fulfil our duty to mankind, and also to our duty to our brothers."
10. Cutaway of cameraman
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani Prime Minister:
"Let me thank the Prime Minister and his team of five or six ministers who are here. The people of Pakistan are very touched at the response of Turkey and I want to thank the Prime Minister personally and the people of Turkey for what they have done. The medical facilities, the financial aid, the material aid, in a difficult period for Pakistan has shown us that Turkey and Pakistan have everlasting friendship and we will always stand with each other in our hour of need."
12. Erdogan kisses baby being held in arms of injured man, Aziz and Erdogan talk to man
13. Wide of Pakistani security surrounding visit
14. Erdogan leaves in car

STORYLINE:

Turkey's prime minister became the first foreign leader to visit South Asia's quake zone on Friday, a day after the UN urged the world to do more to help the disaster's 3.3 (m) million homeless victims before the harsh Himalayan winter threatens their survival.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan travelled to Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.

After viewing the destruction from a helicopter, he visited a 50-bed field hospital set up by a Turkish relief agency, and met injured patients.

More than 300 have already been treated at the unit.

Erdogan has pledged 150 (m) million US dollars in aid, the biggest donation yet by one nation for Pakistan quake relief, an official said on Friday.

Turkey is giving a total of 150 (m) million US dollars in aid, 100 (m) million US dollars in financial assistance, and another 50 (m) million US dollars in relief goods, a spokesman for the Pakistani prime minister said.

Erdogan said he had made the visit "because we want to fulfil our duty to mankind, and also to our duty to our brothers".

Aziz said it is a very difficult time for Pakistan and Turkey's response has shown that the two countries have an "everlasting friendship".

"The people of Pakistan are very touched at the response of Turkey and I want to thank the Prime Minister personally and the people of Turkey for what they have done," he said.

The next biggest single donor so far is Saudi Arabia with 131 (m) million US dollars.

Meanwhile, helicopters continued to carry aid to remote villages and ferrying back the injured.

Soldiers were also moving by foot into the hills, carrying supplies on their backs.

Officials estimate that at least 79-thousand people died in the October 8 earthquake and 3.3 (m) million were left homeless.

The number of displaced persons is greater than in last December's tsunami which hit Indonesia and other Asian countries, and the mountainous region poses much bigger logistical challenges for authorities.

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