There is no certainty regarding when Turkey and Armenia will open their border and establish full diplomatic relations, but unofficial efforts at strengthening ties between the two communities should continue, observers from both sides said as they convened for a policy debate in Istanbul.

Presenting Turkey's foreign policy approach on the issue, Joost Lagendijk, senior adviser at the Istanbul Policy Center at Sabanci University, said “Turkey was not able to deliver results even though it had good intentions.”

"The Turkish government has good intentions, but decisions couldn’t be implemented," he said in a panel debate at Kultur University, Today’s Zaman reported.