"Friends of convenience
Martin Chulov, Middle East correspondent | April 12, 2008
FOR the past 12 months, Turkish envoys have been shuttling between Jerusalem and Damascus, carrying missives aimed at peace, not war, in the Middle East.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert revealed last week that he had dispatched 20 letters to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, almost all of them through the Turks, which the Jewish state has long seen as the safest hands in the region."
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