YEREVAN.- Head of the Turkish university condemned glorification of axe-murderer Ramil Safarov in Azerbaijan.

“This should not have happened. Of course, I condemn the act,” Mustafa Aydin, rector of Kadir Has university, told reporters in Yerevan, commenting on extradition and pardoning of Ramil Safarov.

Mustafa Aydin arrived in Yerevan to participate in the annual international forum “Dynamics of Regional Security in the South Caucasus.”

Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier that Ramil Safarov, a lieutenant in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31 from Hungary, where he was serving a life sentence—and with no expression of either regret or remorse—for the premeditated axe murder of Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership for Peace program in Budapest back in 2004.

As expected, Ramil Safarov’s return to Baku was welcomed, as was his act of murder, by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev’s government and much of Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani president immediately granted him a pardon.

And Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31 that Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.    

Ramil Safarov’s pardoning is condemned by virtually all international organizations.