Turkey and Armenia will appoint special envoys to discuss steps to normalize ties, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying by the English-language Daily Sabah.
The two countries will also resume charter flights between Istanbul and Yerevan, Cavusoglu said during a discussion of the ministry's budget in parliament.
Armenia and Turkey signed a landmark peace agreement in 2009 to re-establish ties and reopen their common border decades later, but the agreement was never ratified and ties remain strained.
During the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict last year, Ankara backed Azerbaijan and accused Yerevan of occupying Azerbaijani territory.
Cavusoglu said Turkey would co-ordinate steps to normalize relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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