Member of Armenian delegation, MP Naira Zohrabyan spoke on Turkey’s vandalism at Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe when discussing the role of national parliaments in the protection of human rights.

“Being both members of the Assembly and their national parliaments, PACE members carry even more responsibility in the society in respecting human rights and sharing democracy,” Zohrabyan noted. “We should jointly struggle against those phenomena, which oppose directly to the basic values of the organization.”

The Armenian MP spoke on assassin Ogyun Samast, who has killed Hrant Dink, an Armenian-Turkish journalist. She stressed that the murderer’s name "Samast" was registered and will be used as a brand in Turkey due to number of his fans. Zohrabyan believes that at least those Turkey’s MPs who are members of PACE should have condemned this fact. However, nobody in Turkish parliament condemned that, considering normal.