Yerevan/Mediamax/. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu expressed the hope that 2015 will be a year of restoration of Turkey-Armenia friendship instead of hostility.

"Hrant Dink was an invaluable Anatolian intellectual who, without compromising either his Armenian heritage or his loyalty to Turkey, sought to help find the ways and means through which Turks and Armenians may build a common future”, Ahmed Davutoglu stated this talking to journalists, Dailysabah reports, Davutoglu stated this talking to journalists in London.

According to the Turkish PM, efforts should be taken to “build a new world for peace”.

Earlier, he issued a written statement to commemorate the anniversary of Dink's murder. He called on all Armenians and all those who believed in Turkish-Armenian friendship to "contribute to a new beginning."

"Only by breaking taboos can we hope to begin addressing the great trauma that froze time in 1915. For its part, Turkey has transcended this critical threshold and relinquished the generalizations and stereotypical assertions of the past," he added.

According to him, both Turks and Armenians, the two ancient nations, can demonstrate the wisdom to understand each other and contemplate a future together.

Ahmed Davutoglu stressed that Turkey will do its best “to give due recognition to the Armenian cultural heritage in Turkey and to those Armenian personalities who made inestimable contributions to Ottoman/Turkish culture”.