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ANKARA — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met Turkish leaders Monday for talks expected to center on the Middle East and Turkish-mediated peace talks between Israel and Syria.
Olmert met President Abdullah Gul before holding talks with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan over dinner.
The office of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza said in a statement that Haniyeh called the president of Turkey and asked him to press Israel to lift its blockade of Gaza.
Israel and Syria held four rounds of indirect negotiations in Turkey after the peace talks were launched in May. The talks were suspended when Olmert announced he would step down.
Syria and Israel held direct talks in the late 1990s and early 2000. But negotiations broke down over the extent of an Israeli withdrawal from land captured in the 1967 war.
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