To every human being who has a bit of sensitivity and
understanding.
The Iranian government is recognized as a terrorist government.
The Iranian government both internationally and in Iran has been committing
atrocity, crime against humanity, etc. in Iran and abroad. Among such actions
one could see destruction of ethnic cultures, languages, even historical
buildings and monuments especially in Azerbaijani-Turkic provinces.
One of the most despicable and ugliest actions recently has been
taken by the Iranian government controlled newspaper. This newspaper has
compared Azeri-Turkic people to bugs and insects. It has mentioned that the
Azeri-Turkic people are irrational people who only understand use of force. It
has also rudely indicated in this article that Azeri-Turkic language is unclear
and lacks logical progression.
This new event shows that ignorant and narrow-minded
Farsi-Chauvinistic people exist among Iranian government. This is a danger to
Azeri-Turkic language, culture, traditions and people.
The Azeri-Turkic language according to the linguists and
scientific evidence is undoubtedly stronger, more logical and powerful than
Farsi language. The Farsi language, which over 70% of it contains Arabic
vocabularies, can even be easily considered as a dialect of Arabic language.
The Azeri-Turkic language is classified within the first 5 more logic languages
of the world among the academia.
I wonder that how much some people can be ignorant and narrow
minded by not to being able to see the beauty and logic of the Azeri-Turkic
language?!?
The Azeri-Turkic people are one of the largest nations in Iran.
They form around 40% Iranian population. The members of Azeri-Turkic community
form the most brilliant economic, cultural and industrial minds in Iran in
every sense. Insulting these people and their language cannot be forgotten and
forgiven.
It is our human duty to react and confront those whom insult ones
culture, language, traditions, etc. Those who insult and bully the others will
never stop until we confront them.
We ask all the Azeri-Turkic speaking people to rise and protest in
order to protect their culture, language and dignity. Our silence when we are
insulted can be our own worst enemy. All Azeri-Turkic people must speak up
anywhere in the world especially in Iran's Azeri-Turkic regions. The only way
to face this despicable and ugly action is: to proudly speak our own mother
tongue everywhere and not to respond to anyone in Farsi in Iran.
The current Iranian government and administration offices shall be
obliged to answer in Azeri-Turkic. Today our best weapon is to speak our own
language more than ever.
So, we invite every Azeri-Turkic person to speak only Azeri-Turkic
everywhere in Iran. That is the only way that we can protect our language,
culture and traditions. It is our duty to stand up to Farsi-Chauvinistic people
in Iran.
Every Azerbaijani should stand up and react today, because
tomorrow will be too late. For this reason we are recommending that all
Azerbaijanis in any city around the world and Iran to get together and
on this day demonstrate their presence against such a despicable actions taken
by Farsi-Chauvinistic government controlled newspaper in Iran.
We will communicate the certain date after consulting with
Azeri-Turkic language lovers groups and organizations when everyone around the
world on this day can come out and participate in such a manifestation as soon
as possible.
Best regards
P.S.:
1- Please
pass this message to everyone you can. Even if you can translate it in
different languages it would be great.
2- Please
the links concerning the references of news:
http://www.iran-newspaper.com/1385/850222/html/children1.htm
http://www.isna.ir/Main/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-717912&Lang=P
http://www.azadtribun.net/x610.htm
http://www.shamstabriz.com/iran-news.htm
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