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Praising Turkey's ongoing efforts to resolve regional disputes, Alon Ben-Meir, journalist, author and professor of international relations, suggests that Turkey has "a golden opportunity" for the settlement of the Israeli-Palestine dispute. "In last five or six years, it mended its relations with Syria, that's why it's able today to talk to Israel and Syria," he said,

Earlier this month, Israel and Syria concluded a second round of indirect peace talks and agreed to continue the negotiations over the fate of the Golan Heights in July. Syria is demanding that Israel return the water-rich plateau, which Israel captured from it in 1967 in the Six-Day War. Israeli officials have repeatedly said a peace deal depends on Damascus distancing itself from Iran and severing ties with groups such as Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbullah.

"Turkey has good relations with Iran, it's very important. Turkey has good relations with Palestinians, both with the moderate as well as with the extremists, including Hamas. Turkey has excellent relations with state of Israel and has very good relations with Egypt and every single Arab country," he elaborated.

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