There was a Turkish Armenian writer, lawyer, and parliamentarian, named Krikor (Grighor) Zohrab/Zohrabyan, but it is uncertain if he is related to the other Zohrabs in these webpages. See www.iatp.am/resource/artcult/zohrab/0005.jpg & www.iatp.am/resource/artcult/zohrab/biography.htm .

I have been told that he was part of the defence team of the French Jew Dreyfus, and this appears to be confirmed by the Turkish page http://www.arasyayincilik.com/turkce/zohrab.html , though I can't read Turkish myself.

His grandfather, Sargis Zohrabyan, apparently moved to Istanbul/Constantinople from Akn (west of Lake Van) in 1779-92. The Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center in New York was set up by his daughter and named after him and his wife. See http://www.zohrabcenter.org/ .

The Zohrabs in Persia/Iran

Part of the Zohrab family in Persia eventually settled between Tehran and the Caspian Sea -- on the plains of Mazanderan, and in the city of Ast(e)rabad -- now known as Gorgan in the area south/east of the Caspian Sea that was once known as Hyrcan(i)a. Being a Christian family in a Moslem country, it is said to have refused the Persian throne on two occasions -- the first being in "ancient history" and thesecond being in the 18th Century, when they nominated Aga Mohammed Khan, who duly became Shah of Persia and founder of the Kajar dynasty.

Aga Mohammed Khan, who was himself born in Asterabad, later took a dislike to the Zohrab family, who had a private army, and killed many members of the family. In 1795, the brothers Constantine and Peter Paul John ("Paul") Zohrab -- probably with their sister, Sophie -- escaped to Turkey, crossing the border near Mt. Ararat and settling in Brusa. Mount Ararat was part of historic Armenia, and is still visible from Armenia today. Some of the family later took as a (probably unofficial) coat of arms a shield depicting a dove above an olive tree, with an Ark above the shield and the words: "Hence Springs Our Hope."