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 Abdullah Gul of Turkey said Thursday that his country is firmly committed to pushing on with normalizing ties with Armenia after nearly a century of bitterness over World War I-era massacres.

"It is evident that these subjects are not easily resolved," Gul said during his two-day visit to Switzerland.
"However, we maintain our firm commitment for the protocols, which aims for the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relationship, to enter into vigor," he said, referring to pacts signed between the two parties last October in Zurich.

"We will continue our efforts so that a sustainable and comprehensive peace would dominate in the Caucasus," he added.
Gul added that he hoped that Armenian President Serzh Sarkisyan "continues with the same courage so that process could be crowned with success."

Panorama.am recalls that Turkey has traditionally rejected the mass killings of 1,5 million Armenians carried out early in the 20th century and took the criticism of the West painfully. The Armenian Genocide has been recognized by lots of states. It was first recognized by Uruguay in 1965. Later Russia, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina and the US 42 states did the same. The Armenian Genocide has been recognized also by Vatican, the Council of Europe, the World Council of Churches.