The Center for Research, Studies and Opinion Surveillance of the Radio and Television of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in early April 1995 in Tehran, broadcast a racist and anti-Turkic questionnaire entitled "Social Distance" in the twenty districts of Tehran.
The researchers of this center, who have Aryan racist and pan-Persian ideas, play a major role in Persian nationalist policy-making in Iranian radio and television programs, using their fascist thoughts secretly and openly in the lab of programs against non-Persian nationalities, especially Azerbaijani Turks. . Panfars researchers at the center see the questionnaire as a routine business poll, but its content is so fascist that it can only be compared to apartheid and Nazi ideas. If this fascist act hurt the feelings of the Turkish nation of Azerbaijan and the street protests of Turkish students.
Questionnaire text:
Explanation: Note that the respondents (non-Turks) are Persians, Kurds, Lors, Baluchis and Northerners (ie close relatives of the Persians), for example, Arabs are not the addressees.
Public Opinion Unit
Social Distance Plan
No. 59
1. Where are you from?
1- Fars () 2- Kurdish () 3- Lor () 4- Baluch () 5- North () 6- Other ()
2. Where is your father from?
1- Fars () 2- Kurdish () 3- Lor () 4- Baluch () 5- North () 6- Other ()
3- Marital status?
1- Single () 2- Married ()
4- If you are going to get married one day, are you willing to marry a Turkish person?
1- Yes () 2- No ()
5- If you have a daughter and one day she wants to get married, are you willing to let her to a Turkish man?
1- Yes () 2- No ()
6- Are you willing to participate in Turkish gatherings or groups to participate in some special ceremonies such as Ashura and Tasua?
1- Yes () 2- No ()
7- If you want to buy a house and you realize that the neighbors next door or the next door apartment's residents are Turks, are you willing to live in their neighborhood?
1- Yes () 2- No ()
8- Are you willing to work with a Turkish person in the same workplace?
1- Yes () 2- No ()
9. Are you willing to live in a neighborhood where the majority are Turks?
1- Yes () 2- No ()
10. Are you willing to live in an Turkish-speaking city?
1- Yes () 2- No ()
11- Are you willing to travel with a Turkish person, invite him to your house or go to their house?
1- Yes () 2- No ()
The aims of pan-Persianism from designing and distributing a questionnaire
By distributing this questionnaire in twenty centers of education in Tehran and among children and adolescent students, chauvinist and pan-Persian designers pursued the following evil goals:
A- Injecting and inducing their inhuman and racist thoughts on innocent children and adolescents.
B- Creating a feeling of hatred towards Turks from the childhood years in Persian-speaking children whose mental form has not yet been formed and transmitting this feeling to their families.
D- Creating a sense of inferiority and aversion to their identity in the children of Turkish families from an early age and transmitting this sense to their families and thus facilitating the racist process of assimilation and assimilation in the Persian language and culture.
The beginning of the protests
Awake, active and Turkish students of Tehran universities protest in a statement against the design and distribution of this racist and fascist questionnaire. The questionnaire is delivered by the students of the University of Tehran to the students of the University of Tabriz and is immediately reproduced and handed over. Insulting the radio and television hurts the feelings of Turkish students. Scattered and limited protests are taking place by Turkish students on the campus of Tehran universities, but the protests at the University of Tabriz have been so widespread that they have taken to the streets.
Field report on the protest demonstrations of Turkish students at the University of Tabriz
"At noon on Tuesday, May 7, 1995, announcements of a call for a student protest rally arrived, which had been installed at the faculty level the day before. It is now half past twelve as one of the students walks up the steps of the pedestrian bridge in front of the university and reads a protest statement. After reading the statement, suddenly a strong voice breaks the atmosphere of silence. "Death to Apartheid" Everyone shouts in unison: "Death to Apartheid, Death to Larijani, Azerbaijan War Olson - Enemy Khar Olson, Turkish Daily Azad Olson, Article 15 Guide to Execution Ola" They go to the university square. But the streets overlooking the university are closed. Police and security forces appear in plain clothes in front of students, and clashes begin..,Suppressive auxiliary forces enter the scene. Students can not even reach the university square. The then president of the university, Dr. Pourfiz, comes to calm the students, but no one listens to him. Everyone says he is lying. The agent who filmed the students in the form of a cameraman is played by the students. Police quickly removed him from the scene. The hustle and bustle continues. The then governor Abdolalizadeh will be present among the students. Students are led inside the university and Vahdat Hall. Student representatives protest and speak in front of the podium against the radio and television. But apparently Abdul Alizadeh is carrying a message. His message is that the head of the Radio and Television is unaware of this questionnaire and those who publish it will be punished. "The students are not satisfied, but the meeting will end anyway."
The regime has besieged the university to prevent people from joining the students, and is using more than 3,000 police and its repressive corps in sensitive areas of Tabriz to prevent the protests from turning into a national uprising.
After this case, the students of Urmia University also protested against this questionnaire in the form of protest demonstrations. Turkish students in other cities of Azerbaijan and all Iranian universities issue statements condemning the questionnaire and its authors. The regime of the Persian minority, which did not expect such a reaction from the Azerbaijani people, finally announced on the national radio of Iran that the authors of this questionnaire had received orders from foreign agents who would be punished for their actions. But no institution pursued the case and in the end no one understood who the authors of the questionnaire and its designers were.
Government reaction
Hashemi Rafsanjani's government strongly denied the media coverage of the protests of the Turkish nation of Azerbaijan. Of course, the government was successful in denying the issue and boycotting the protests for the following reasons: And social media and the organizational and media weakness of Azerbaijanis abroad.
Khamenei reaction
Following the widespread protests in Azerbaijan and the protest of Ayatollah Malakouti, the Friday prayer leader of Tabriz, against the head of the Iranian Radio and Television, and an argument with the Supreme Leader, Seyyed Ali Khamenei, On June 25, Seyyed Ali Khamenei dismissed his representative in East Azerbaijan and appointed Ayatollah Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari as the Friday Imamat of Tabriz instead of Ayatollah Malakouti. Mujtahid Shabestari implicitly calls the protesters disruptive and hostile to God and counter-revolutionary in the sermons of Friday prayers on the 6th of Khordad, ordered by Khamenei.
Announcing Student Day in South Azerbaijan
After the formation of the independent protests of the Turkish students and the silence and lack of support of the Persian students, the militant and identity-seeking Turkish students came to the conclusion that they should separate their ranks from the centralist students of Fars. Therefore, instead of 16 Azar, May 19 was declared Student Day in South Azerbaijan and marked a turning point in the new national movement of Azerbaijan. Because experience has shown that the demands of the Turkish nation of Azerbaijan are fundamentally different from those of other nations, especially the Persian nation.
After the formation of the independent protests of the Turkish students and the silence and lack of support of the Persian students, the militant and identity-seeking Turkish students came to the conclusion that they should separate their ranks from the centralist students of Fars. Therefore, instead of 16 Azar, May 19 was declared Student Day in South Azerbaijan and marked a turning point in the new national movement of Azerbaijan. Because experience has shown that the demands of the Turkish nation of Azerbaijan are fundamentally different from those of other nations, especially the Persian nation.
The last word
Finally, the publication of the targeted "Social Distance" questionnaire could not have been a coincidence. This questionnaire should be called the Manifesto of Persian Racists. The manifesto sought to deprive "Turks" trapped in the newly established political geography of Iran of all social rights and to isolate them in such a way that no Turkish child in Azerbaijan would ever claim to be a Turk. On the other hand, the Pan-Persian minority regime, which for decades had spent huge sums of money to eradicate non-Persian identities in a country called Iran, could use this questionnaire to measure the results of the costs and assimilations it had made. But the racists' dream did not have a happy interpretation. Their dirty plan was futile and backfired. Azerbaijan was sad, angry. The nationwide student protests not only led to the retreat and negligence of the officials of the Radio and Television, but also laid the foundation stone of the great resurrection of Azerbaijan on the pages of history. Azerbaijan woke up. The National Movement of Azerbaijan made the struggle against the occupiers of the Persian minority regime universal and institutionalized with the participation of all strata of the Turkish nation of South Azerbaijan.
Explanation: ُ
* In preparing this article, the interview of Yurd Dash site with Professor Hassan Rashedi and the reports of Igid Blog and Oguz TV have been used.
** Ali Larijani was the then head of Iran Radio and Television.
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