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Yildiz made the remarks after a meeting between Erdogan and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak failed to resolve differences on a possible deal to build a nuclear power plant in northern Turkey, estimated to worth about 20 billion dollars (14.6 billion euros).
"We failed to overcome (disagreements on) certain issues at this meeting... Some improved conditions were proposed and we said we would evaluate them," Anatolia quoted the minister as saying.
"But we will begin contacts with other countries as well. We have to enter into a speedy negotiation process," he said, adding that US and European companies would also be considered as possible partners.
The state power companies of Turkey and South Korea, EUAS and KEPCO, had signed a preliminary deal in March paving the way for talks aimed at concluding an inter-governmental agreement to build a nuclear power plant at Sinop, on Turkey's northern Black Sea coast.
Yildiz said earlier this week the talks had snagged on issues concerning financial terms, treasury guarantees and the distribution of shares in the planned company that would build and operate the plant.
Overriding opposition from environmentalists, Turkey signed a deal worth 20 billion dollars with Russia in May to build the country's first nuclear power plant, at Akkuyu on the southern Mediterranean coast.
Ankara's objective is to have nuclear plants up and running in at least two regions in 2023.
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