While Syrian President Bashar Assad wants Turkey to mediate for the renewal of Syrian-Israeli peace talks, Israeli State Minister Benny Begin has defied eventual involvement of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Milliyet newspaper reports.

The Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s advisor however stated in an interview that Turkey and the USA are legal channels for talks between Israel and Syria and some time ago PM Netanyahu declared he was prepared to go anywhere for the sake of initiating such talks the Milliyet says.