The monitoring process over Turkey should be immediately restored.  

Head of the Armenian delegation to PACE Hermine Naghdalyan, who is also the Deputy Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly (NA), made the aforementioned statement during the PACE discussion on the situation in Turkey.

She handed to the PACE Secretariat her speech, in which she responded to the statement made by Turkish FM Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu yesterday, specifically noting that Çavuşoğlu’s vision on the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiation process and concession of five regions is the result of the imaginary perception of reality. Whereas in reality, the Karabakh issue resolution is aimed at determining the final status of Nagorno-Karabakh, in accordance with the expression of the will of its people, which has a binding legal force, the Armenian representative said.  

According to Naghdalyan, Çavuşoğlu’s statement on Armenian-Turkish relations was another attempt to delude.  “If Turkey was indeed going to normalize its ties with Armenia, it would have ratified and implemented the Zurich Protocols signed in 2009 and opened the only closed border of Europe,’ the head of the Armenian delegation said.

Touching on the situation in Turkey after the attempted coup, Naghdalyan strongly criticized the anti-democratic processes in the country. “Today’s discussion is the best evidence of the fact the situation in Turkey still continues to remain in the center of the international community’s attention. We all realize that the unstable situation in this country can be volatile not only for the region, but also in a wider sense,” she noted.

In the Deputy Speaker’s words, it is apparent that the Turkish authorities use the attempted coup as a pretext for suppressing the protests in the country. As a result, thousands of people have been detained and sacked.

“The recently announced extension of the state of emergency and discussion of the possibility to bring back capital punishment mean final withdrawal from human rights,” Naghdalyan noted, recalling that the Turkish authorities have shut down several Turkish TV and radio companies, including children’s channel.  

“Only one conclusion can be made here: Turkey is becoming more and more authoritarian and unpredictable,” she stressed.

“Fully ignoring the rule of law, the Turkish authorities use the situation for struggling against political opponents and ethnic minorities,”Naghdalyan concluded.