"During the meeting, which was held on the sidelines of the 45th Munich Security Conference, the sides have discussed improving Turkish-Armenian relations," spokesman Tigran Balayan said, adding that the meeting took place late on Friday.
The border between Turkey and ex-Soviet Armenia has been closed since 1993 on Ankara's initiative. Turkey says Armenia must end attempts to have the early 20th century massacre of Armenians in Turkey recognized as an act of genocide, and must settle its territorial dispute with Azerbaijan over Nagorny Karabakh. Turkey supports its fellow Turkic nation Azerbaijan in the Karabakh conflict.
Turkey says the deaths and deportations of Armenians at the end of the Ottoman period in 1915 were caused by civil unrest rather than an act of genocide. However, most Western academics qualify the massacre, which took the lives of around 1.5 million Armenians, as genocide.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul recently made a historic visit to the Armenian capital of Yerevan, where he attended a 2010 World Cup qualifier between the two countries with his Armenian counterpart, Serzh Sarkisian. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan plans a response visit to Istanbul in October 2009.
