It is impossible to solve all problems at once: Turkish president

"A giant iceberg cannot melt at once. There are may be difficulties, but determination and will can solve the problems," Gul said.

Turkish and Armenian Foreign Ministers Ahmet Davutoglu and Edward Nalbandyan signed Ankara-Yerevan protocols in Zurich on Oct. 10.

On Aug. 31, Turkey and Armenia in the talks mediated by Switzerland reached an agreement to launch "internal political consultations" to sign the Protocol on Establishment of Diplomatic Relations and Protocol on Development of Bilateral Relations, the Turkish Foreign Ministry reported.

Political consultations will be completed within six weeks, and following that two protocols will be signed and submitted to the two countries' parliaments for approval, the ministry reported.

Armenian-Turkish ties have been severed since 1993.

On Oct. 10, the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the Turkish media that his country would never take a step contradicting Azerbaijan's interests.

"It is necessary to free Azerbaijani occupied territories, not only Karabakh but other occupied regions," the Turkish Foreign Minister Davudoglu said in his interview with the Turkish TRT1 TV channel a day after the signing of the protocols.

/Trend News/