Forbidden
Turkish Language Must Be Official
Language In Iran
Iran Is Not Persia
Iran, like it´s neighbours such Iraq and Afghanistan, is a multi national and multi cultural society.
Inside Iran, whether it be Persians (also reffered to as the Fars), Azerbaijanis (also reffered to as Azerbaijani Turks), Kurds, Lurs, Balochis, Arabs, Turkmens, Gilanis, or any other nation or ethnic group, are all living inside a country that is opressing all of it´s citizens and taking away their rights as individuals.
However, the non-Persians, many of whom in the last 76 years have assimilated into state sponsored Persian culture and have abandoned their native heritage and language, are dealing with twice as much injustice and opression as the Persians. Every nation on earth whether they number 30,000 or 30,000000, has the right to self-determination and is granted certain rights by even the most undemocratic, backward and totalitarian regimes which exist in the world today.Even in Afghanistan, a country that is far less developed socially, economically and strategically than Iran, nation living within the borders of this country have more national rights than 65% non-Persian population of Iran.
God bless all people of Iran in their fight against Persian chauvinism and Persian racism.
Major Ethnic Terrorities-National Lands in Iran
(Approximate)
To:
President Ahmadinejad
The Presidency,
Azerbaijan
Intersection, Tehran, Iran
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22
november 2004
the
speech of:
Ayda Amir Hashimi
Swedish Azerbaijanis National Federation
Herr
talman, ärade damer och herrar,
Å Azerbajdzjanska Riksförbundet i Sveriges ägnar, vill jag tacka Moderaternas
Samlings Partiet för att ha ordnat ett sådant symposium där nationerna i
Irans lägen kan tas upp och diskuteras.
Mr.
Chairman, ladies and gentleman,
On
behalf of Swedish Azerbaijanis National Federation, I would like to thank
the organizer of this important symposium. We believe that the global peace,
security and prosperity are not a national internal politic, they are rather a
global matter. Consequently, the responsibility to shed light on human
rights issue in Iran is not solely an intern matter for nations living in
Iran. So any effort by any organization in order to improve the status of human
rights in Iran will be highly estimated not only in Iran, but also in whole
region. Once again, we would like to thank Moderat Party for their commitment
for such an important issue.
As
you know, Iran is a multi-ethnic country and its constitution provides only
qualified commitments to the principle of non-discrimination on the basis of
ethnic identity. But, in practice, these qualified provisions have proved to be
no protection against what has become widespread, institutionalized
discrimination.
Azerbaijanis
together with the Farsi speaking people are by far two Iran's largest
ethnic groups. Azerbaijanis are making up as much as 38 percent of
population. According to the International Linguistics Center, SIL, which is
also granted formal consultative by UNESCO 37.3% of Iran's population are
Azerbaijanis. The United Nations human rights report on Iran notes that
"there may be as many as 30 million, or 40 percent" ethnic
Azerbaijanis in Iran. On the other hand, the chauvinistic government of Iran is
not interested in having an unbiased statistic on ethnic groups since
diversity is not seen as a resource, rather as national security risk.
Regardless
the official statistic on ethnic groups, Azerbaijanis have played important role
in development of Iran. Let me give you a background information to illustrate
the situation of Azerbaijanis.
Approximately
190 years ago- as a result of the war between the Gajar and Russian Tsar Empires
in accordance with Gulistan treaty of 1813 and Turkmenchay treaty of 1828,
Azerbaijan was divided into two parts. The northern Azerbaijan gained its
independence in 1991 (the part that we today know as Republic of Azerbaijan),
meanwhile southern Azerbaijan managed to establish an autonomy government in
only one year between 1945-1946. Azerbaijanis in South have always been the main
actor in political changes in Iran. For instance, Azerbaijanis played a key role
in nationalist-democratic opposition dating back to Iran's 1905-11
Constitutional Revolution or actively took leading role on overthrown the Shah
of Iran in 1979.
South
Azerbaijan consists of Ardabil, East Azerbaijan, West Azerbaijan, Zenjan
provinces, and the areas of Astara, Gazvin, Hamadan, Markezi and other ethnic
territories. The main grievances of the Azerbaijanis in Iran are cultural and
economic. Chauvinism as a policy has been practiced implicitly by the Iranian
regime and has targeted at its core the national culture of Azerbaijanis. The
Azerbaijani Turkish language has been removed from official use in all areas,
including schools, courts, government structures, and the army. Specific forms
of Azerbaijani cultural expression are prohibited as well. Azerbaijanis are
often arrested because of protest against cultural discrimination. The case of
Insafeli Hedayet -a free lancer journalist from Tabriz,
Akbar Azad -another Azerbaijani writer from Tehran and Abdulaziz Azimi -a
religious preacher from Ardebil demonstrates clearly the sensitivity of the
Azerbaijani issue in Iran. These activists among many other Azerbaijanis have
been jailed because they protested against discrimination of Azerbaijanis. They
raised cultural rights of Azerbaijanis and complained about Iran's centralized
"Persian Chauvinism". Interestingly, it doesn’t matter whether
Azerbaijani actives are supporter of the current regime or belong to other
political organizations. Any protest against discrimination is seen as an
attempt for overthrown the regime.
Azerbaijanis
much like Persians, Kurds, Baluchis, Arabs and Turkmens are frustrated with the
current political gridlock, the country's economic malaise and lack of human
rights. Indeed, Tabriz, biggest Azerbaijani city in Iran is widely acknowledged
as the host of the most active and progressive democracy movement in Iran.
Therefore, we believe that co-operation between all Azerbaijani organizations
with other organizations in Iran will speed up democracy movement.
When
Azerbaijanis debate the democratizing process in Iran, question is often about
the complicity of a unitary state as a future system with ignorance of human
rights. Amongst
Azerbaijanis in Iran there are three main viewpoints for dealing with the
national problem.
·
There’s
a group supporting
the idea of political reform within a unitary system.
·
Another group
of intellectuals and political activists support the idea of a federal system, a
territorial model of federation based on ethnic identity. The idea is that the
language use will be used to assign the territorial units.
·
And last but
not the least, the third group which is represented by political organizations
and groups, which support the independence of South Azerbaijan and the idea of a
United Azerbaijan –including Southern Azerbaijan, Republic of Azerbaijan, of
course with Nagorno-Karabakh (the territory of Republic of Azerbaijan which has
been ockupied by armenians). These groups argue that Iran has never been
governed by a democratic system, therefore it makes quite difficult for
minorities to have a peaceful co-existence in post-Islamic system.
Today, I am representing Swedish Azerbaijanis National Federation
(AFI) covering 24 Azerbaijani associations in Sweden. All those three main
viewpoints for dealing with the national problems are being represented in our
organisation.
We
believe strongly that the world communities should support the human rights of
ethnic groups in Iran since the rights of ethnic groups is the key issue for
democratising process in Iran. There can never be a democratic country if the
national interests of ethnic groups are not met there.
Swedish
Azerbaijanis National Federation calls in a
broad coalition between political democratic organizations in Iran and
organizations representing different national minorities. This coalition in
co-operation with international supports, can be a proper forum to develop a
cross over talk between all organizations interesting in to establish democracy
in Iran.
Moderaternas
Samling party by arranging this symposium has shown their interest and
commitment in such important issue and hopefully will continue to shed light in
this matter.
The
conclusion is that beside other ethnic groups in Iran, Azerbaijanis also suffer
hardly from discrimination and it is up to international and national
communities to conduct a peaceful dialogue to increase the awareness about such
important issue in Iran.
Thank
You for listening.
Tackar
för Er uppmärksamhet.
Congratulations!
Respectfully
Nergiz Nedaei
The Azerbaijani Youth Association in Sweden
Dear Landsmen,
It is with great honor that I can share with you that the first parliamentary resolution in Europe and America, specifically about South-Azerbaijan, has been laid in the Swedish parliament. The resolution which was initiated and drafted by the Azerbaijani Youth Association in Sweden, was laid on October 31 by Mr. Hans Linde, a member of the Swedish Parliament and the Left Party’s representative in the Swedish Foreign Affairs committee.
The resolution gives a historical background to the ruling chauvinistic system in Iran as well as explains the situation of the South-Azerbaijanis today. It brings up not only the cultural discrimination in the country but also the systematic economical and social oppression conducted against the Azerbaijanis. The banishment of the Azerbaijani language in the school system and media as well as in all other public contexts, the distortment of the Azerbaijani history, the economical negligence of Azerbaijani regions, the Persification of Azerbaijani geographical names and the reducing of land areas bearing the name Azerbaijan, are given as examples of the Persian chauvinism and the forced assimilation of the Azerbaijanis in Iran. The resolution also mentions the mass demonstrations in the Azerbaijani areas in northern Iran, which took place in the end of May earlier this year. Through the publishing of the degrading article and cartoons in the state owned newspaper “Iran”, which initiated the demonstrations, the Iranian state’s anti-Azerbaijani propaganda is clearly identified. It is stated in the resolution that this is a part of the strategy of diminishing the national self picture of the Azerbaijani nation in Iran and a way to instill shame over their origin.
Concretely, the resolution proposes that the Swedish government within the UN, EU as well as other international bodies shall work so that:
The resolution will be treated within the Swedish Foreign Affairs committee, and will later be discussed in the Swedish parliament where Mr. Linde and his party will have to defend the above mentioned proposals. After voting, a final decision regarding the resolution will be taken.
The laid resolution is an official document recorded in the Swedish Parliament’s archive. It will be circulated among the parliamentarians as well as among journalists and academics working with questions concerning human rights and Iran, meaning that a great number of influential people will have access to this material, something that will contribute to the further enlightenment of the South-Azerbaijani matter.
Despite its small geographical size, Sweden is a leading country in the international community when it comes to human rights issues. Thanks to Sweden’s long tradition of defending victims of injustices and condemning repressive regimes it has gained great authority and respect among other countries. Thus, the fact that Sweden has chosen to engage in the case of South-Azerbaijan increases the attention around the question in the international community, especially within the European Union. The contents and the terms used in the resolution are also of great importance. For the first time the politically controversial terms “Persian chauvinism” and “South-Azerbaijan” as well as the numbers 30 million are used together in written form on the highest parliamentary level.
Organizations in the Diaspora have the possibility to fulfill their national duty in many ways. One way is through lobbying, a path that our organization has chosen. For several months we have been aiming for this resolution to be laid and have therefore worked hard and with focus for this to come through, among others things by a number of visits to the Swedish parliament and by establishing and nurturing contacts with members of the Parliament. During our work we have understood that if you believe you can achieve, something that concretely has been proven by this resolution. We believe that this resolution will help not only our organization, but all other Diaspora organizations, tremendously in their work to raise awareness about South-Azerbaijan. We also believe that thanks to the inspiration from our brave brothers and sisters inside, our Diaspora will continue to strengthen and continue to achieve great accomplishments in serving its nation.
1. Proposal for parliamentary decision
2. Background
Iran is a multicultural country with a population composed of several different ethnic groups, such as Azerbaijanis, Persians, Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen, Balochis, Armenians, Assyrians and others. Despite this, Iran is often erroneously regarded as a Persian state.
According to official statistics from Iran the Azerbaijanis constitute 24 percent (circa 17 million) of the total population of the country, while UN estimates the Azeribaijanis quantity to approximately 30 million. These are mainly concentrated to the Azerbaijani provinces in northern Iran, but are also in great amounts scattered around remaining parts of the country, especially in the capital city Teheran.
The Azerbaijani provinces in Iran are also referred to as South-Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan was divided in 1828 through the Turkmenchay treaty, between what was then tsar Russia and what is today Iran. The border went with the Araz River. The land north of the river accrued to the Russians and the land south of the river remained a part of the territories of the Gajar dynasty (parts of today’s Iran). Hence the expressions North- and South-Azerbaijan, where North-Azerbaijan refers to the Republic of Azerbaijan which after the collapse of the Soviet Union established an independent state, while South-Azerbaijan refers to the Azerbaijani provinces in northern Iran.
The Azerbaijanis belong to some of the oldest ethnic groups in the area with a history going back several thousand years in time. Since circa a thousand years back, until 1925 (with some exceptions)., the “Persian Empire” was ruled by Azerbaijani dynasties The last Azerbaijani dynasty (the Gajar dynasty) fell the year of 1925 when Reza Shah Pahlavi ascended the throne. Pahlavi was an enthusiastic adherent of the idea of the superiority of the Persian people and introduced with his entrance to power the vision of a Persian Iran. He now applied the Persian chauvinism in reality and laid the foundation of the assimilation politics that still prevails in Iran.
As a result of Reza Shah Pahlavi´s vision of a cultural homogeneous Iran, the Azerbaijanis in the country have for over 80 years had to endure oppression and violation of inhuman kind. They have had to suffer an assimilation politics which has aimed to eliminate all traces of their ethnical and cultural identity. Their history has been rewritten and deformed. Their language has been forbidden. They have had to endure ethnical cleansing and been exposed to coerced transportations of their own land. Sweden shall work so that the Azerbaijanis have the right to study and write their own history. This is what we would like the parliament to make known for the government.
But despite almost a century of oppression, insults and restrictions of their most fundamental human rights, the Azerbaijani’s fight for their legitimate rights and democracy has never ended. In 1945 after massive national discontent towards the central governments systematical oppression they managed to establish a self-governing regime in the Azerbaijani part of Iran. Only one year later it was crushed by the Shah. Thereafter followed executions of tens of thousands of Azerbaijanis on open squares and streets with the purpose to deter and discourage the people. The shah also captured and executed the whole Azerbaijani intellectual elite- an enormous violation of the human- and cultural rights of the Azerbaijanis.
Despite great setbacks and enormous resistance from the Iranian state, the protest movements in South-Azerbaijan are growing. The movement got a huge upswing when the Republic of Azerbaijan (North-Azerbaijan) gained its independence after the collapse of the Soviet-Union. The differences between the divided people became clearer than ever. The Azerbaijanis in Iran could witness how the Azerbaijanis in the Republic of Azerbaijan gained cultural rights and self-governance.
3. Situation today
The Azerbaijanis in Iran are today constantly struggling for their cultural and ethnical survival. The use of the Azerbaijani-Turkish language is forbidden in schools, as well as in all other public contexts. Incorrect and distorted history is taught in the schools where the Azerbaijanis are denied their Turkish ethnicity. Newspapers, journals and other publications in Azerbaijani-Turkish are forbidden and not a single Azerbaijani TV-channel exists. Sweden shall work so that the Azerbaijani language gets the status of an official minority language in Iran. This is what we would like the parliament to make known for the government. Sweden should within the UN, EU and other international bodies work so that the Azerbaijanis in Iran have the right to use their language in oral and written form and that the Azerbaijani-Turkish language shall be allowed to be educated in the schools. This is what we would like the parliament to make known for the government.
Political organizations are prohibited and culturally and politically active Azerbaijanis are being imprisoned, abused, tortured, and “disappears” on a daily basis. Their crime is to fight for their most basic human rights. Azerbaijani names are not allowed and geographical names on lakes, cities etc are constantly changed into Persian names. The Azerbaijani provinces are incessantly being cut up in peaces. To a beginning they were united in one region from which more and more cities and counties have been excluded. This results in that the Azerbaijani provinces, as time go by, make out less and less land areas. Due to economical discrimination, a mass emigration of Azerbaijanis to Persian areas has taken place, and still takes place. The newly arrived Azerbaijanis in these areas are met with discrimination and humiliating treatment.
As is being clear from investigations and reports regarding the different ethnic groups´ situation in Iran, the Azerbaijanis are “well integrated” into the Iranian society. This can be understood as if the Azerbaijanis are less oppressed than other ethnic groups. In reality it is the contrary. They have been exposed to violent oppression which has forced them to assimilation. The reason for this is the large number of Azerbaijanis, and their strong position in the Iranian society. They are often urbanized, well educated and capital strong. Many of Iran’s intellectuals have been, and are of Azerbaijani origin. The last century’s four national revolutions have all been led by Azerbaijanis. They have often started in South-Azerbaijan. Much energy and force has therefore been laid upon crushing all forms of ethnic consciousness among this group, since the regime knows that it’s first when the Azerbaijanis´ becomes nationally conscious that the question of minorities can cause real problems for the regime.
The strategy has been to abuse the Azerbaijanis psychologically and to crush their national self picture, so that they won’t have anything left to defend. . They want to infuse shame among the Azerbaijanis over their origin.
Sweden shall work so that the Azerbaijanis have the right to build their own cultural and political organizations. This is what we would like the parliament to make known for the government.
The latest example is from May 12 this year when the state owned newspaper “Iran” published a very humiliating article and some caricatures, where the Azerbaijanis were resembled to cockroaches living on the excrements of Persians. In the article, which’s headline was “How to prevent the cockroaches from turning us into cockroaches”, different methods of how to eliminate the cockroaches, i.e. the Azerbaijanis, were discussed. Massive demonstrations in the biggest Azerbaijani cities such as Tabriz, Urumiye, Naghadeh, Khoy, Miandoab, Zanjan, Ardabil and Miyaneh broke out in protest to the cultural oppression and the racist politics in the country. The demonstrations in South-Azerbaijan which lasted over two weeks are the largest since the Islamic revolution in 1979. The regime answered to the demonstrations with brutal violence, which resulted in dozens of dead, hundreds of injured, and thousands of arrested.
After for over 80 years been victims of a massive Persification campaign, parts of the Azerbaijani community in Iran are on the surface assimilated, whilst every Azerbaijani is a bearer of the Azerbaijani cultural heritage. The Azerbaijanis like all other peoples have the right to their own culture and cultural heritage. Sweden shall work for the Azerbaijanis right to their own culture and cultural heritage. This is what we would like the parliament to make known for the government.
Today there is a frightening silence around, and unawareness about, the oppression that the Azerbaijanis in Iran are living under. This is much a cause of the fact that the international community has not taken its universal responsibility and given the Azerbaijanis in Iran the attention and the political support which they are in need of. However the question is raising more and more attention among different human rights defending organizations, which are frequently reporting about the violations of the human rights of the Azerbaijanis in Iran.
The fact that the Azerbaijanis human rights are not respected in Iran is not acceptable. Their cultural rights must be respected in entire Iran. Sweden and the Swedish government have a responsibility and have to take part in the defense of the human rights of the Azerbaijanis. Sweden should play an active role within the UN, EU and other international bodies to break the silence around the oppression of the Azerbaijanis in Iran. Sweden should work so that the Azerbaijani question is brought up on the international agenda. Sweden should also in its bilateral contacts with Iran take every opportunity to promote the democratic, cultural and human rights of the Azerbaijanis. This is what we would like the parliament to make known for the government.
| October 31, 2006 | |
| Hans Linde (l) |
Azeri Turks In Iran ( Tabriz ) Anti - Chauvinism Protests
TURKISH
NATION IS ALIVE
On
the occasion of the rebellion of the Turkish nation of
The
date of
The
Turkish people did not react only to the publication of the absurd cartoons
against the Turks in the Newspaper of Iran subordinate to the Iranian state.
They also gave the reactionary and thoughtless leaders in power and the
chauvinists a strong message indicating that they would not tolerate any insult.
Today,
the intentions of the chauvinists regarding the Turks (Turkmens
and Azaris), Arabs, Baluchis
and other nations have been revealed.
With
the publication of these cartoons, they seek to insult the Turkish nation and
oppress them. Nevertheless, the proud Turkish nation of
The
regime of the Islamic Republic has deceived a part of the Turkish nation for
years by using the Shiite sect and tried to remove the national identity and
Turkish language in
This
regime, which is highly dissatisfied with the Turkish overpopulation, has used
the religion and Shiite as an instrument to make the Turkish people forget their
identity. In this regime, the representative of the Supreme leader qualifies the
development of the Turkmen nation as treachery. This regime show the Turks as
cockroach, the Arabs as undeveloped and eater of lizard and the Baluchis
as nasty and ignoble.
Such
a reaction of the Turkish nation and the support provided by the other nations
to this reaction was unexpected for this regime. The demonstration of the
Turkish people that took place with the participation of millions of persons has
frightened them. They shot the people. They killed, injured, tortured and
imprisoned many persons. This regime has proved that the greatest enemy of the
Turkish nation is the regime of Islamic Republic being reactionary, chauvinist,
supporter of the Supreme Leader.
The Turkish nation of Iran -either Azerbaijani Turk, Ghashghay or Turcoman- celebrates this epic and bloody rebellion of millions of people in its anniversary and warns the regime about the fact that it won’t be able to insult this old and heroic people any more; because the outcome of such an insult against the Turks will be extremely serious; because this nation has awaked and because it has discovered its own identity and its own path.
TURKMENSAHRA LIBERATION ORGANIZATION
