Syria-Israel talks to resume next week in Turkey

Turkey's CNNTurk TV channel reported on Thursday the Turkey-mediated talks between Syria and Israel will resume next week in Istanbul.   Â

Israel and Syria announced last month a resumption of peace talks under Turkey's auspices after an eight-year break, as a result of a process that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said began in February 2007.Â

The last round of peace talks broke down in 2000 over the fate of the Golan Heights, the strategic plateau which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and annexed in 1981 in a move not recognized by the international community. Those talks were hosted by the United States.Â