Turkey announced the end of the cold war with Armenia.

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The Minister argues that the relationship between the two countries are no longer based on the enemy. He said that contacts between Ankara and Yerevan but not limited to the interests of Turkey, Azerbaijan friendly.
Davutoglu said that the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan waiting on an official visit to Ankara. The visit was reportedly scheduled for October 2009.
In late April 2009 recall, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey and Armenia, have announced the development of a "road map" - a plan for normalization of bilateral relations.
Currently, the boundary between the two countries is closed, they have not been established formal diplomatic relations. The subject of the differences are, in particular the genocide of Armenians in Turkey (to recognize the mass extermination of the Armenian genocide, Turkey has refused), as well as the status of unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh (Turkey, Azerbaijan supporting, requires that this region was re-established control of the Azerbaijani authorities).
Officially, the road map has not been released. However, informal information, which published the Turkish press, the plan includes, inter alia, the establishment of a joint commission of historians, which will explore the materials on the massacre of Armenians in Turkey at the beginning of XX century (in Armenia between the fear that by agreeing to this, the official Yerevan call into question the fact of the genocide). It was also reported that the status of Karabakh in the "road map" is not included, but the Turkish authorities, however, intend to link him with the possibility of opening the border with Armenia.
The news of the development of a "road map" has caused criticism in both Armenia and Turkey. In Armenia, the republic's leadership attempted rapprochement with Ankara have led to a split of the ruling coalition. She left the Party of Revolutionary Federation, stating that "speech on the background of anti-Turkish authorities and their desire to dictate the terms" attempted to negotiate with Turkey "strike the interests of the Armenian people." In Turkey, however shortly after the news of the "road map" was replaced by the Foreign Ministry leadership - Ali Babacan replaced Ahmet Davutoglu.