Originally posted by Hellektor
To your post:
I don't know whether you are addressing oslonor or me, since you haven't used QUOTE tags.
If by "your article" and "that link of yours" you are talking to me, I can't believe you read that article in such a short time.
It's consisted of five parts, it is completely exhaustive and covers all areas regarding the question.
If you want my explanation, for the thousandth time:
Turks are not a race.
By Turks I mean the invading nomads who pillaged this side of the Caspian after the 11th century A.D.
They "conquered" the areas from the Caucasus to Asia Minor and forced their language and Turkic identity on the conquered, indigenous peoples through rape, harassment, genocide, taxes, janissary "recruitments", stealing of women as sex slaves, stealing of children, etc.
The fake nation, "Azeris" are also the same as Turks. They are not an ethnicity.
The people of the REAL Azarbaijan (Aturpatekan) however, are the descendants of the Medes (an Iranian people), who became speakers of Turkish under the rule of Turkic invaders. They are Iranians racially, culturally and in mentality and they consider themselves Iranians.
The people of the REAL Azarbaijan (Aturpatekan) however, are the descendants of the Medes (an Iranian people), who became speakers of Turkish under the rule of Turkic invaders. They are Iranians racially, culturally and in mentality and they consider themselves Iranians.
Now, if you had read the article you would have found out that "...Persia is not confined by linear conceptions such as “race”, “language” or even “culture”. An Iranian can just as easily be speaking Arabic in Khuzistan, Baluchi in Zahedan, or Turkish in Maragheh."
Iran is not Turkey, so do not project.
In Turkey EVERYBODY is a Turk and if they refuse to consider themselves as such, they will be exterminated like the Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians in 1915.
In Iran it is impossible to tell whether one is completely Persian or has Azarbaijani (Turkish speaking Iranian) "mixed" in their blood.
Almost anybody that I know will tell you: "my mother is a Tork (the word for Turkish speaking Iranian) and my father is a Lur", "I am Fars and my wife is Tork", "I am Kurdish and my husband is Fars" and so on, if they are asked.
It doesn't mean that it matters much, but that's what you hear all the time.
In Turkey EVERYBODY is a Turk and if they refuse to consider themselves as such, they will be exterminated like the Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians in 1915.
In Iran it is impossible to tell whether one is completely Persian or has Azarbaijani (Turkish speaking Iranian) "mixed" in their blood.
Almost anybody that I know will tell you: "my mother is a Tork (the word for Turkish speaking Iranian) and my father is a Lur", "I am Fars and my wife is Tork", "I am Kurdish and my husband is Fars" and so on, if they are asked.
It doesn't mean that it matters much, but that's what you hear all the time.
Some Azeris claim they are Persians. So when they marry other Azeris, those Azeris imagine they have married a Persian. In reality both of them are Azeris!!!!!!!
There is no distinction or discrimination among different "ethnicities" in Iran.
This is the secret that this country has survived against the odds and such different peoples of immense diversity have lived in harmony together for such a long time.
This is the secret that this country has survived against the odds and such different peoples of immense diversity have lived in harmony together for such a long time.
The article, which neither you nor oslonor have read, clearly explains all of this and also exposes the enemies of Iran, the pan-turkists, who are trying to destroy this harmony.
Because destroy is what Turks do and they do it like no other.
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