1.   Most of the oil is expected to flow through a Turkish pipeline.

2.   Ahmet Bulca, a technical director with state-owned Turkish pipeline company Botas, said Iraq authorities did not provide details about the problem.

3.   Aliev said preparations for the Turkish pipeline must be completed this year, the Interfax news agency reported from Baku.

4.   But the Turkish pipeline would have to pass through the treacherous geopolitical terrain of Armenia, Georgia or Iran.

5.   Ersumer said Turkey will sign an agreement with Georgia and Azerbaijan this month, to allow the Turkish pipeline to cut through their territories.

6.   Ersumer said Turkey will sign an agreement with Georgia and Azerbaijan this month to allow the Turkish pipeline to cut through their territories.

7.   Foreign Minister Ismail Cem will visit neighboring Azerbaijan next week to press for a Turkish pipeline to carry Azeri oil to Western markets, the ministry said Tuesday.

8.   However the Turkish pipeline would have to pass through Armenia, Georgia or Iran.

9.   Sources said negotiators reached a tentative agreement that exports could begin through Mina al-Bakr while the Turkish pipeline is being inspected and repaired.

10.   The reported Turkish boycott comes weeks before an international consortium, including BP and Amoco, is to decide whether to pick the Turkish pipeline route or an alternative.