Ankara has resolved the Kurdish and Armenian issues, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa, the Turkish newspaper Yeni Chag reported.
Turkey has resolved the Armenian and Kurdish problem, Gul said.
Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers Ahmet Davutoglu and Edward Nalbandian signed the Ankara-Yerevan protocols in Zurich Oct. 10.
Turkey and Armenia in talks mediated by Switzerland reached an agreement to launch "domestic political consultations" Aug. 31 to sign the Protocol on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations and Protocol on the Development of Bilateral Relations, the Turkish Foreign Ministry reported.
Diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey have been broken due to Armenia's claims of an alleged genocide, and its occupation of Azerbaijani lands. The border between them has been broken since 1993.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts. Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. - are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Ankara will never take steps against Azerbaijan's interests, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview with local press Oct.10.
The occupied Azerbaijani territories should be liberated.
The day after signing the protocols Davutoglu called the liberation of the occupied Azerbaijani territories an important condition for establishing relations with Armenia in an interview with the TRT1 Turkish television station.
According to Gul, Ankara has done everything in its power to improve relations with Armenia and now expects the same from Yerevan.
