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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/57375/full/57375/turkey-says-syria-israel-talks-may-restart/ <br /><br /> <b>Turkey says Syria-Israel talks may restart</b> <br /> Friday, March 12, 2010 | by <br /><br /><p>Turkey’s prime minister said March 9 that Israel has accepted an offer for his country to again mediate talks with Syria, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said no such decision had been made.</p> <p>“Syria wants Turkey’s mediation,” the state-run Anatolia news agency quoted Recep Tayyip Erdogan as telling journalists during a visit to Saudi Arabia. “Israel has accepted this.”</p> <p>“I hope that we can start the new process,” the agency also quoted him as saying.</p> <p>Netanyahu’s office issued a statement saying, “No decision has been taken to renew the Turkish mediation.”</p> <p>It added: “But if these comments reflect Turkey’s desire to strengthen its relations with Israel and to contribute to peacemaking in the region — then Israel would clearly welcome that aspiration.”</p> <p>Turkey mediated several rounds of indirect negotiations between the Mideast rivals in 2008, but little progress was made. Syria later suspended the talks in response to Israel’s military operation in Gaza, and Israeli officials said Turkey’s scathing criticism of Israel’s role in the conflict had disqualified it as a mediator. <em>— ap</em></p>

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