THE INCLUSION OF REZA PAHLAVI IN THE IRAN’S FUTURE GOVERNMENT WOULD IGNITE A CIVIL WAR, MAKING DISINTEGRATION OF THE COUNTRY NECESSARY AND INEVITABLE.
TURK DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM - T.D.P.
In the historical and collective memory of the Turkish people living in Iran, which is also supported by scientific history, the Pahlavi dynasty, was created by anti-Turkish colonial and crusading European states. It was the result of the usurpation of Turkish political sovereignty through a colonial coup and two sham assemblies. The Pahlavi dynasty is also the initiator of institutional and systematic state policies of linguistic and ethnic genocide of the Turkish people living in Iran, a policy that continues to this day. In addition to this fact, the Pahlavi family and the majority of Pahlavi era officials, due to their Turkish descent from Tebriz-Turkili and Baku-Caucasus, are seen as an eternal stain of shame in Turkish national history. In the eyes of the Turkish nation on three sides of the Aras River, the Pahlavis are considered as a symbol of Mankurtism and national betrayal.
1-From the Turkish perspective, the establishment of the Pahlavi dynasty and government in 1925, much like the establishment of the constitutional government before it through the occupation of Tehran, the capital of the Qajar government, by constitutionalists and anti-Turkish terrorists in 1909, was deemed illegal. The establishment of the Pahlavi Dynasty in 1925 was the result of an illegal military coup led by Sardar Sepah in 1920, which violated the Mashrute Constitution by two sham parliaments. Reza Khan’s rule was effectively controlled by the foreign colonial and imperialist state of Britain. It was considered a puppet regime imposed by foreign powers.
2- In terms of national typology, the Pahlavi state was a Persian-centered and anti-Turkish state, with a racist view against the Turkish national identity and a hostile stance towards the Turkish nation. Until the establishment of the National Government of Azerbaijan (1945), including the years following the coup of Sardar Sepah, this government had pursued and implemented a "policy of linguistic and national genocide against Turks" for at least three decades. The aim was to eradicate the Turkish nation, change the Turkish language to Persian through "forced assimilation", and completely Persianize the Turkish people living in Iran. These facts rendered the Pahlavi regime completely illegitimate in the eyes of the Turkish people.
3-
During the Reza Shah era, the Turkish nation living in Iran was a captive
nation. Türkili
and other Turkish-populated regions,
especially Azerbaijan which historically has been the most important and
developed region of Turkili and Iran, under the iron fist rule of a corrupt
military, turned into economically backward colonies of the Farsi government.
Reza Pahlavi has not made any reference to the national and linguistic rights of the Turkish people living in Iran. In the slogans, propaganda, statements, and speeches of Reza Pahlavi there is no mention or reference to tragedies such as Reza Khan's illegal coup, the overthrow of the Qajar Turkish government by mock parliaments, the ending of 1,200-year Turkish rule over Iran, the initiation of the official state policy of linguistic and national genocide of the Turks by the Pahlavi government, the systematic Persianization of the language, culture, and national identity of the Turks, the banning of the Turkish language in offices, the army, the educational system, the press, theaters, cinemas, and the media, the official ceremonies where Turkish books were burned, the continuous partitioning of Turkish national regions into numerous micro-provinces, the transformation of Turkish-populated regions, particularly Turkili, into a full-fledged colony of Persia, the official humiliation and belittling of the Turks, Turkish language and culture in Iran's social culture, media, and educational system, the banning of new Turkish names and the systematic change of thousands of old geographical names from Turkish to Persian, stealing of all Turkish historical, political, cultural, and artistic heritage, governance, flag, architecture, miniatures, carpets, cuisine, and music, and presenting them as Iranian, Persian, Parsi, Perse, and Farsi, … during the Constitutional Movement, Pahlavi, and Islamic Republic Periods.
The Pahlavi government, which has committed national treason, linguistic and national genocide against the Turkish people, and crimes against humanity, for the Turkish people living in Iran is the embodiment of racism and hostility towards Turks and equivalent to Hitler's Nazi government for the Jews. Supporters of Reza Pahlavi should not forget that the spark on February 18, 1978 that led to the anti-monarchy revolution was ignited in Tebriz, Azerbaijan, Turkili.
The inclusion of Reza Pahlavi in the Iran’s future government would ignite a civil war, making disintegration of the country necessary and inevitable.
According to numerous domestic and foreign historical sources and documents, Turkish and Persian have always been the national languages in Iran and de facto official languages of the central government over the past thousand years, while the rest of the languages have been considered regional or local languages. This is because the Turkish people living in Iran are not a “national minority” in the country, but rather a “major” and its “founding” nation. However, in the last 125 years (since 1898), the Turkish language has not only been deprived of its previous de facto official status but has also been subjected to a policy of linguistic purification (forced assimilation, Persianization of its language[1]). The Turkish nation itself has been subjected to a policy of national genocide and eradication from Iran. Furthermore, for about a century, the Turkish people living in Iran, have lost their political independence. They have not been able to govern themselves and have been under the rule and sovereignty of the Persian nation. This situation that began with the occupation of Tehran, the capital of the Qajar government in 1909, and continued especially after the establishment of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1925, goes against the traditions of Turkish statehood, the essence of Turkish history, and the Turkish national perception and psychology. Consequently, it is an unnatural, humiliating, temporary, and unsustainable state of affairs.
The most
important red lines and requirements for the Turkish nation to remain in the Iranian
state are as follows:
1-Official
recognition of the Turkish nation, its identity, ethnonym, and national rights by
the Iranian government and its constitution;
2-Legal and “De Jure”
Re-officialization of the "national" Turkish language at the constitutional
and central government levels in line with long standing customs and historical
traditions in the country (All other languages should also be recognized as
official and state languages in their respective regions),
3-Establishment of political sovereignty for the Turkic people over Turkic national regions or homelands in Iran. This includes "Turkili" (the continuous Turkish national region in northwestern Iran, currently divided among 14 provinces in accordance with the official government policy of linguistic and national genocide against the Turkish people), "QashqaYurt", "AfsharYurt", "TurkmenYurt" and "KhalajOrda" (Khaljistan) as their national state.
The leaders, spokespeople, individuals, organizations, and centers involved in the management of the "Woman, Life, Freedom Movement" have made it clear that they will not accept the officialization of the Turkish language nationwide. In their discourses, charters, and strategies, the Turkish element is noticeably absent. Similar to the official ideology of the Iranian government, they do not recognize the existence of the Turkish nation in Iran. The official government discourse in Iran, as well as the Persian nationalism of the opposition and position, only acknowledges the “Iranian nation”, which includes the Kurds, Baluchis, Arabs and Turkmens, but excludes Turks. According to them, there is no distinct national group or "Turkish nation" in Iran. They claim that there are only Iranians who their language has been forcefully converted to Azeri, however their national identity is only Iranian and their national language is solely Persian. These beliefs and positions represent clearly a "politics of denial and elimination" towards the Turkish nation living in Iran.
The leadership of the "Woman, Life, Freedom Movement" is exclusively in the hands of two national groups, the Fars and Kurd, or more precisely, Persian and Kurdish extreme nationalists. Just as the leadership of the anti-Turkish constitutional movement was under the control of Persian and Bakhtiari Lur (as well as Gilak and Mazani) national groups. The slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom" was created and first used by the Syrian branch of the PKK, an expansionist and terrorist organization that serves as the proxy force for imperialist, colonialist, and crusading European-Western states in the region. It was inspired by the writings of Abdullah Ocalan, the founder and leader of the PKK. The leader of the Syrian branch of the PKK, Mazloum Abdi has a special enmity and grudge against the Turkish people living in Iran. For this reason, he chose the name of his organization "Jilo" in gratitude to the Assyrian Jilo tribe who massacred more than 140,000 Turks in West Azerbaijan during World War I.
The European and Western imperialist-crusader states, along with their politicians, academia, and media, tend to make the Turkish element “invisible” in Syria, Iraq, and Iran[2]. Simultaneously they magnify, sanctify, and heroize the Kurdish national group in these countries, often exaggerating the demographics of the Kurds within them. For instance, Kurds make up only 5-7% of Iran’s population, yet in the West, they are portrayed as 20-30% of the population. Additionally, the maps of "Greater Kurdistan" prepared in the West include national homelands for Turkish, Arab, Lor, Lak, Guran and other nations. Ultimately, they actively support Kurdish armed, paramilitary, and terrorist groups in the countries of the region.
All of this is done to give the Kurds in Iran a weight disproportionate to their real demographic, political and historical significance. The ultimate goal is to have Kurds and Persians jointly dominate the central government and occupy the Turkish homeland, similar to what they did in Iraq and especially Syria. For this reason, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock sent her message to Iranians during the Women, Life, Freedom uprising in both Persian and Kurdish, despite the Kurds being an extremely trivial element in Iran's political history. However, she has not sent any message to Turks, even though they make up the relative majority of Iran's population, accounting for over 40%, and are considered the founding nation in the country.
Among the leaders of the "Woman, Life, Freedom" Movement are remnants of the Pahlavi government. In the historical and collective memory of the Turkish people living in Iran, which is also supported by scientific history, the Pahlavi dynasty, was created by anti-Turkish colonial and crusading European states. It was the result of the usurpation of Turkish political sovereignty through a colonial coup and two sham assemblies. The Pahlavi dynasty is also the initiator of institutional and systematic state policies of linguistic and ethnic genocide of the Turkish people living in Iran, a policy that continues to this day. In addition to this fact, the Pahlavi family and the majority of Pahlavi era officials, due to their Turkish descent from Tebriz-Turkili and Baku-Caucasus, are seen as an eternal stain of shame in Turkish national history. In the eyes of the Turkish nation on three sides of the Aras River, the Pahlavis are considered as a symbol of Mankurtism and national betrayal:
1-From the Turkish perspective, the establishment of the Pahlavi dynasty and government in 1925, much like the establishment of the constitutional government before it through the occupation of Tehran, the capital of the Qajar government, by constitutionalists and anti-Turkish terrorists in 1909, was deemed illegal. The establishment of the Pahlavi Dynasty in 1925 was the result of an illegal military coup led by Sardar Sepah in 1920, which violated the Mashrute Constitution by two sham parliaments. Reza Khan’s rule was effectively controlled by the foreign colonial and imperialist state of Britain. It was considered a puppet regime imposed by foreign powers.
2- In terms of national typology, the Pahlavi state was a Persian-centered and anti-Turkish state, with a racist view against the Turkish national identity and a hostile stance towards the Turkish nation. Until the establishment of the National Government of Azerbaijan (1945), including the years following the coup of Sardar Sepah, this government had pursued and implemented a "policy of linguistic and national genocide against Turks" for at least three decades. The aim was to eradicate the Turkish nation, change the Turkish language to Persian through "forced assimilation", and completely Persianize the Turkish people living in Iran. These facts rendered the Pahlavi regime completely illegitimate in the eyes of the Turkish people.
3-
During the Reza Shah era, the Turkish nation living in Iran was a captive
nation. Türkili
and other Turkish-populated regions,
especially Azerbaijan which historically has been the most important and
developed region of Turkili and Iran, under the iron fist rule of a corrupt
military, turned into economically backward colonies of the Farsi government.
Prominent figures of Turkish descent (through their parents) in the “Woman, Life, Freedom” Movement, such as Reza Pahlavi, Mir Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi, Golshifteh Farahani, Shirin Ebadi, Hassan Shariatmadari, Behzad Karimi, Googoosh, Ali Daei, Jafar Panahi, Narges Mohammadi, Maryam Qajar Azdanloo, etc., typically lack any Turkish national consciousness. Their chosen national identity is Iranian. They consider their national language to be Persian, not Turkish. They do not engage in this movement or any aspect of their professional lives in any way as Turks or with a Turkish national identity. Instead, they participate in all activities solely as Iranians and members of the Iranian nation[3]. In contrast to Baloch and Kurdish artistic, cultural, and political figures who consistently use and emphasize their Baloch and Kurdish national names and identities in all arenas.
The so called “The transition phase from the Islamic Republic system”, supposedly a continuation or the next phase of the “Woman, Life and Freedom” Movement, is actively supported by Western Turkophobic centers. Especially the French government which, despite its extreme domestic secularism, is the heir to the medieval European crusader mentality and colonialism in its foreign policy. It is also the flag-bearer of anti-Turkism globally in various regions such as Iran, the Caucasus, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Europe, and Central Asia. The United States of America, is the primary ally and supporter of the Pahlavi regime and the remaining members of the Pahlavi government.
There is no doubt that foreign supporters of the "Woman, Life, and Freedom" Movement and the " The transition phase from the Islamic Republic system " (such as France and the United States), along with its domestic leaders (Persian and Kurdish nationalists), simply desire a transition from a fundamentalist Shiite Persian regime to a secular Persian regime that still upholds Persian ultra-nationalism, pan-Iranism beliefs, and remains strongly anti-Turk.
The managers, representatives, and self-proclaimed spokespeople of the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement, and especially the leaders of the " The transition phase from the Islamic Republic system " have not made any reference to the national and linguistic rights of the Turkish people living in Iran. They only discuss abstract and general democracy. Their slogans and propaganda are in Persian and even Kurdish, but never in Turkish.
There is no mention or reference to tragedies such as Reza Khan's illegal coup, the overthrow of the Qajar Turkish government by mock parliaments, the ending of 1,200-year Turkish rule over Iran, the initiation of the official state policy of linguistic and national genocide of the Turks by the Pahlavi government, the systematic Persianization of the language, culture, and national identity of the Turks, the banning of the Turkish language in offices, the army, the educational system, the press, theaters, cinemas, and the media, the official ceremonies where Turkish books were burned, the continuous partitioning of Turkish national regions into numerous micro-provinces, the transformation of Turkish-populated regions, particularly Turkili, into a full-fledged colony of Persia, the official humiliation and belittling of the Turks, Turkish language and culture in Iran's social culture, media, and educational system, the banning of new Turkish names and the systematic change of thousands of old geographical names from Turkish to Persian, stealing of all Turkish historical, political, cultural, and artistic heritage, governance, flag, architecture, miniatures, carpets, cuisine, and music, and presenting them as Iranian, Persian, Parsi, Perse, and Farsi, … during the Constitutional Movement, Pahlavi, and Islamic Republic Periods.
The reason is that the managers and leaders of the transition phase from the Islamic Republic system openly and covertly consider all those policies to be appropriate, necessary, and right. They not only do not criticize those policies, but they also have no intention or plan of apologizing or making amends for them. On the contrary, based on their deeds, words, and actions, they continue to justify and praise those policies (a year that is not fruitful is evident from its spring).
One should not be under any illusion. The course of events is leading towards the replacement of the religious fundamentalist and seemingly anti-Western Persian nationalist-religious fascist system with a secular, both outwardly and inwardly Western friendly Persian nationalist- fascist system. In such a system, there is no hope, no future, and no tomorrow for the Turkish nation, just as there is no hope, no future, and no tomorrow for the Turkish nation in the anti-Turkish Islamic Republic of Iran system.
The involvement of the Pahlavi family and officials in leading this movement, along with the active support of Germany, France and other historically anti-Turkish centers, indicates that Turkish people living in Iran will face a more catastrophic situation than they did after the British-led anti-Turkish constitutional movement. That movement led to the end of Turkish political rule over Iran and the start of a government policy aimed at linguistic and genocide of the Turkish people: Completing the unfinished work that the Constitutional Movement and the Pahlavi monarchy began and the Islamic Republic continued, namely the complete removal and eradication of the Turkish language, culture, and people from the Iranian scene, and complete and comprehensive Persianization of Iran. Politically, the goal is establishment of a new system and state in Iran following the precedents set in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, where local Turks have been completely ignored, excluded from the political landscape and the central government; deprived of their national rights, including any autonomous and federal sovereignty. In Iraq and Syria, the Kurdish minority and in Afghanistan, the Tajik minority, favored by the crusader Turkophobic West, have been elevated disproportionately to their population weight, to jointly rule over the central government and dominate the Turkish lands. The only difference between recent events and the Constitutionalist Movement - Reza Shah era is that this time, instead of England, the main stage-setting and support is provided by France. A state that is the traditional center of Pan-Iranism, Pankurdism, Panarmenism, Pan-Hellenism, and the main supporter of the extreme expansionist, Armenian, Kurdish, Greek nationalism and terrorism.
And this is how “the ship’s captain (the Turkish nation) has to adapt a different policy!”
The Turkish nation does not accept the current arbitrary representation and spokespersonship of Persian and Kurdish politicians and celebrities on its behalf in any domestic or foreign forum. It also rejects any design for the future system governing Iran by anti-Turkish, colonialist, crusader, and terrorist-sponsoring centers such as Germany, France and their proxy forces in the region, such as Kurdish and Persian ultranationalist and terrorist groups.
Specifically, France, this colonialist state that has committed numerous crimes and genocides in Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Southeast Asia, etc., is the main and historical center of ASALA, Dashnak, PKK, etc.. France was complicit in the massacre of 300,000 Turks in West Azerbaijan province of Iran and Turkili during the First World War. The French government has been the main supporter and promoter of extreme and expansionist Armenian nationalism and Christian fundamentalism throughout the entire period when the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan was under Armenian occupation and continues to do so today. France is also the main supporter and conspirator in inciting and arming all ethnic and religious groups in the region, including Kurds, Nusayris (Arab Alawites in Syria), Christians in Lebanon, Greeks in Cyprus, Armenians in Karabakh, Assyrians in Iraq, etc., and using them as a proxy force for the colonial and imperialist governments of the West against their neighbors in the region.
Kurdish political and armed groups act as pawns and proxy forces of the crusader, colonialist, and imperialist European and Western states in the region against the Turkish nations and countries. Kurdish expansionist nationalists and fascists consider half of, and recently all of the Turkish homelands in northwest and western Iran, including the Turkish-speaking cities of Tebriz, Maku, Khoy, Urmu, Salmas, Sulduz, Qoshachay, Tikan Tepe, Yasuken, Qorveh, Bijar, Sonqor, and others, to be part of their fictional “Greater Kurdistan” on its imaginary maps.
The Turkish nation living in Iran will never accept the sovereignty of the Persian nation and government, particularly the fascist and racist remnants of the Pahlavi dynasty, likewise any form of control or rule by Kurdish fascist expansionist and terrorist groups. This includes not only rejecting their rule over all of Iran, but also over the Turkish ancestral homeland Turkili, or even over a single Turkish city, village, neighborhood, or alley. It will never become a condemned minority and a captive and subjugated nation in "Persia" and "Kurdistan."
In the future, the Turkish nation will not live in a country where the official language of the central government is not Turkish, and where they do not have the right to political sovereignty over themselves. Attempting to impose any of these restrictions, especially the return of the remnants of the Pahlavi government, signifies the necessity, legitimacy, and certainty of moving towards ending Iran's territorial integrity and coexistence with the Persian and Kurdish nations in a single country. The Pahlavi government, which has committed national treason, linguistic and national genocide against the Turkish people, and crimes against humanity, for the Turkish people living in Iran is the embodiment of racism and hostility towards Turks and equivalent to Hitler's Nazi government for the Jews. Supporters of Reza Pahlavi should not forget that the spark on February 18, 1978 that led to the anti-monarchy revolution was ignited in Tabriz, Azerbaijan, Turkili. Kurdish fascist and expansionist groups also must always keep in mind the fate of Sheikh Obaidullah Nahrini and Ismail Agha Simitko, who coveted the Turkish homeland.
The experiences of the past 125 years, including the Constitutional Movement, the Islamic Revolution, the Islamic Republic of Iran, its reformist and opposition, the Green Movement, the Woman, Life and Freedom movement and "the transition phase from the Islamic Republic system " movement, show that the anti-Turkish Persian extreme nationalists and Pan-Iranists who were and are at the core of leadership in all of them, will never voluntarily accept the "Turkish reality and the Turkish problem" in Iran. They will continue to refuse to acknowledge Turkish rights, such as the reestablishment of the Turkish educational system and the recognition of the nationwide official status of the Turkish language. They will not even acknowledge the existence of the Turkish nation in Iran.
Facts such as the presence of Reza Pahlavi and Parviz Sabeti in the leadership, as well as the lumpen monarchist and fascist Pan-Iranist elements among the symbolic figures of this movement, their stubborn denial of the existence and national identity of the Turks in Iran, and the active support and encouragement of Germany1 France and other historically anti-Turkish centers, practically give legitimacy, a green light, and permission to the Turkish nation, intellectuals, politicians, and elites to use all their unlimited power to strive to realize their national rights outside of Iran. The Turkish nation cannot wait indefinitely for the Persian side, which does not even acknowledge the existence of the Turkish nation and the ethnonym “Turk” in Iran. The Turkish nation cannot either remain passive in the face of the plans of "Greater Kurdistan" and the expansionist threats of Kurdish fascism against Turkish cities and villages with millions of inhabitants.
In the current situation, the strategy of the Turkish nation and the Turkish National Democratic Movement consist of three parallel struggles that must be pursued and advance simultaneously, so that each struggle facilitates the implementation of the other. Fantasy, wish, and utopia are one thing, and the ability to mobilize power and change the balance of power, etc., are another. And it is the latter that guarantees the survival of nations.
1- To declare "countrywide" plans and demands concerning the central government and country system, in order to familiarize the public opinion of the Iranian people, other nations, foreign governments, and the international community with them: The absolute separation of religion from the state, the abolition of official religion, the dismantling of the system of guardianship of the jurist, the prohibition of clerics and military personnel from involvement in government, military, security, and economic affairs, the dissolution of the Revolutionary Guards, the absolute guarantee of women's rights and freedoms, human rights, the abolition of compulsory hijab and the death penalty.
2- To declare "national" plans and demands concerning the national and democratic rights of the Turkish nation, with own Turkish national identity and Turkish ethnonym, as well as to secure and ensure them: The official recognition of Turkish national identity and ethnonym of “Turk” in the constitution, the recognition of the Turkish language as a countrywide and De Jure official language at the central government level in the constitution, Iran’s full membership in the "Organization of Turkic States" (Organization of Turkic States), the dismantling of Persian Shiite seminaries from all Turkish-populated areas, national-linguistic federalism for all national regions including regional states of Turkili, QashqaYurt, Khalajorda, AfsharYurt, and TurkmenYurt.
3- To prepare Preparing the necessary internal, external and international conditions and facilities and to change the balance of power to achieve the national and democratic rights of the Turkish people by any means possible and as soon as possible: In addition to the anti-Turkist Islamic Republic of Iran, the self-proclaimed leaders of the "Woman, Life and Freedom" Movement, and "The transition phase from the Islamic Republic system" have repeatedly granted the Turkish nation permission to engage in this struggle.
The presence of the figures like anti Turk racists as Reza Pahlavi and the expansionist fascist and terrorist Kurdish organizations in the supposed leadership of Iran's future sovereignty, is particularly offensive to Turks and a humiliation to the Turkish nation. This situation underscores the need to decisively break up this country and separate the national Turkish regions, such as Turkili, Qashqayurt, Khalajorda, Afsharyurt, and Turkmenyurt from the anti-Turkish Persian government and Farsistan, at all costs and by any means necessary.
[1] Since 1898-1900, when the Tehran and Tabriz Education
Associations banned Turkish-language education in new schools and made Persian
education mandatory and exclusive for Turks and other non-Persian nations, the
Persian language has been transformed into a colonial, oppressive, imposed, and
foreign language for these nations. Since then, every Turkish elite who has
presented, promoted and enforced Persian as the national language for the
Turkish people living in Iran, has committed treason against the Turkish
nation. This includes the constitutionalists and democrats of Tabriz Azerbaijan
who established Persian-language schools in Azerbaijan during the Qajar Turkish
government, and figures like Gholam Hossein Saedi, who in Paris referred to
Persian as the national language of the Turks. The Persian language is just as
much a national language for the Turks living in Iran as the Armenian language
is for the Turks of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the Greek language is a
national language for the Turks of Turkey. The recent uproar of extremist
Persian nationalists and Pan-Iranists in response to Pezeshkian’s reading of a
Turkish poem by Shahriar, whom they also consider a national poet, is due to
this fact, as well as their fear of breaking the taboo placed on the Turkish
language, and questioning the exclusive official status of Persian. However,
these behaviors will backfire and accelerate the decline of the colonial,
murderous, imposed, and alien Persian language outside of Persia.
[2] Why does the Iranian left ignore the Syrian Turks?
[3] Alarming situation: the high number of
Gözqaman-Manqurt Turkish elites and the severity of their situation
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