Bütöv Azərbaycan Azadlıq! United Azerbaijan!

The Turks, living in southern Azerbaijan, which is lokated in Iran, have no minoriy rights. Their existence is denied since decades. And lies are spreaded that the Turkic Azerbaijanians are of Persian origin. The Assimilation Policy of Azerbaijan has started with the Pahlavi era and is going on till nowadays. In this clip, the Azerbaijanian scientist Dr. Gülare Yenisey is explaining the roots of the Persian Chauvinism and its racist ideology. For over 80 years, the role of the central government in Iran has been one of denying and dismissing ethnic and linguistic diversity in the country. Just as the Pahlavi regime focused on annihilation of cultural, linguistic, and ethnic differences in the country, so too the current Islamic Republic has continued with the politics of assimilation, exclusion, and racism. In recent days many Azeri towns and cities in Iran have, once again, become the revolutionary scene of anti-racist and anti-colonial struggle against Iran's racist and colonial order. The current movement of South Azerbaijan must be situated right at the heart of issues of racial/ethnic oppression and internal colonialism in an Iranian context. [...] The racist politics of the governing apparatuses have always been accompanied by ideological and discursive support of the majority of Persian writers, intellectuals and thinkers who, due to their belonging to the dominant group, have enjoyed the privileges of monolingualism, monoculturalism, and racism in the country. To this group must be added the assimilated segment of non-Persian writers and intellectuals whose passionate support for Persian racism has even surprised the Persians themselves. In fact, such individuals of Turkic origin as Mahmood Afshar, Iraj Afshar, Ahmad Kasravi and others have been among the founding fathers of this ugly racist system. The governing apparatuses, the dominant elite, and the farstoxicated intelligentsia have come together and sustained the structural bases of one of the most racist systems in the contemporary world. This naked racism which feeds on outdated and discredited Arayanist paradigms and racist theories of the 18-20th centuries Europe has outlived the Jim Crow segregationist system in America; it has survived Nazism, European fascism, and the Apartheid regime in South Africa. In effect, compared to its kind in Germany, Europe, the US, and South Africa, the Persian racism in Iran represents an amazing success story in terms of its durability, normalcy, and assimilatory capacity. Further reading: The Anatomy of Iranian Racism: Reflections on the Root Causes of South Azerbaijan's Resistance Movement... http://www.gunaskam.com/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=76&Itemid=44 _______________________________________ "Iran, Land of the Turks" - Ibn Khaldun, Arab Muslim historiographer and historian, and one of the founding fathers of modern historiography, sociology and economics.