Turkey, Jordan call for middle east peace talks

Jordan's King Abdullah II and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan approached Monday for new "genuine and viable" peace talks amongst Israel and the Palestinians, the imperial royal residence said.

Meeting in Amman, they asked "the resumption of genuine and viable arrangements between the Palestinians and Israel to end the contention on the premise of a two-state answer for guarantee a free Palestinian state with June 1967 fringes and east Jerusalem as capital".

Talks amongst Israel and the Palestinians have been at a stop since the disappointment of US intercession in the spring of 2014.

"New peace transactions must occur as indicated by an exact timetable and be founded on worldwide resolutions," Erdogan and Abdullah said.

They additionally communicated their "unequivocal dismissal of any endeavor to change the lawful and recorded circumstance in the Al Aqsa mosque and any one-sided Israeli activity debilitating the character of east Jerusalem".

Jordan, the main Arab nation separated from Egypt to have marked a peace bargain with Israel, is overseer of the Muslim heavenly destinations in Israeli-added east Jerusalem.

The delicate Al Aqsa mosque compound in the eastern division's Old City — which Jews call the Temple Mount — was the concentration a month ago of a strained standoff after Israel presented new safety efforts following an assault that killed two policemen.