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    US JEWISH LEADER PRAISES TURKEY'S MIDEAST ROLE

    Today's Zaman
    02 July 2008, Wednesday
    Turkey

    The chairman of one of the largest Jewish-American groups has thanked
    Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his government's role in
    restarting peace talks between Syria and Israel several years after
    they collapsed amid disputes.

    Abraham H. Foxman, the national director and chairman of the
    Anti-Defamation League (ADL), praised Turkish efforts for peace when he
    met Prime Minister Erdogan late on Monday in Ankara, officials at the
    Prime Ministry said. Israel and Syria confirmed in May that they began
    Turkish-mediated talks a year ago. Two rounds of indirect talks have
    been held since then in Ä°stanbul, and a third round is in the offing.

    Erdogan and Foxman also discussed Turkish-US relations, officials
    said. Erdogan thanked Foxman for his stance in regard to Armenian
    allegations of genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire during
    the years around World War I.

    After pressure from Armenian groups and some members of the ADL,
    Foxman last year reversed the organization's long-held policy and
    decided to call events of the World War I era genocide. But Foxman
    insists that two resolutions pending in the US Congress endorsing
    the genocide claims would not help resolve the dispute between Turks
    and Armenians. He reiterated on Monday that disputes between Turks
    and Armenians can best be settled between the two countries, not via
    resolutions passed in parliaments.

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