Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization

Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization
ANRO

Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization [ANRO] (Persian: تشکیلات مقاومت ملی آذربایجان) (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Milli Dirəniş Təşkilatı) has declared its existence in 2006.[1]

ANRO defines itself as a part and subset of general National Movement of South Azerbaijan.

ANRO struggles to seek and regain withheld economical, political, social, cultural and human rights and fundamental liberties of Turkish nation in South Azerbaijan.[2]

ANRO believes in and acts within the democratic and civil struggle methods and values.[3]

ANRO avoids and condemns all kinds of violence especially governmental and organized armed terrorists.

Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization – ANRO-, strongly believes that the necessary conditions for Turkish nation in South Azerbaijan to benefit the self-determination right are occurred and fulfilled.[4]

In ANRO opinion, struggling to enjoy the self-determination right is a legitimate and necessary right of Turkish nation in South Azerbaijan.[5]

News organ of the ANRO is ArazNews And the official party views expressed by the spokesperson (Babek Chalabiyanli) of the organization,or in writing on the official webpage.

Ceremony of the tenth anniversary of the Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization was held with the presence of authorities, members, supporters and guests from other organizations in South Azerbaijan on 22 March 2016.[6]

South Azerbaijan and the National Movement of Azerbaijan

South Azerbaijan is the Northwestern part of the country, which is so called Iran nowadays. South Azerbaijan is populated majorly by Azerbaijani Turkish people which are a part of historical Azerbaijani Turkish Nation.

Azerbaijani Turks established governments and ruled the territory so-called Iran over the past millennium, but after the collapse of Turkish Empire of Qajar and establishing the Pahlavi Monarchy in 1925, extremist Persian nationalism became the official ideology of the government. Anti-Arabism, Anti-Turkism and Anti-Islamism were the bases of newly established nation-state which began to be called Iran.[7] All non-Persian (non-Farsi) aspects and features were tried to be destroyed, especially the Turkish culture, language and civilization because it was considered as the most dangerous and powerful potential threat, due to the high percent (30-40%) of the Turkish people among the total population.[8][9] Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian Foreign Minister in turkey on 2012 says that %40 of the Iranians speak Turkish.[10]

South Azerbaijan, which was the most developed and improved region of the country over centuries, became one of the most impoverished and destroyed regions in the last century. Turkish nation in South Azerbaijan has been subjected to a bare economical, political, social, and cultural discrimination and oppression during last eight decades.

Mass humiliation is one of the most important problems Azerbaijani society is facing in Iran.

The performance of dictatorship and centralist regimes of Pahlavi monarchy[11] and Islamic Republic as well as the Iranian opposition, during the decades, have shown that the Iranian mentality and viewpoint has not the capacity and tendency to understand and recognize other non-Persian identities and entities in Iran, while the Farsi-speaking people hardly reach 50% of the country population and Iran is an exact instance of a multi-national, multi-religious, multi-cultural and multi-lingual country.

As a result, beginning from the early 1900s Turkish Nation in South Azerbaijan began its resistance and counteraction movement against Persian chauvinism [12] to stop the persecution and discrimination which have been facing over decades to save its historical national existence identity and dignity.

The modern stage of national struggle called "National Movement of Azerbaijan" has been escalated by the end of 1980’s. National Movement of Azerbaijan now is a powerful and wide-supported political movement spread throughout the South Azerbaijan which demands the social and collective human rights and freedoms of Turkish society in South Azerbaijan.[13]

The soccer team “Tiraxtur” (Tractor) is one of the most favorite Azeri soccer clubs which turned into a symbol of national pride and the independence movement of over 30 million Azeri Turks in South Azerbaijan, which is part of Iran at the moment.[14][15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ بیانیه اعلام موجودیت تشکیلات مقاومت ملی آذربایجان
  2. ↑ Azeri Movement Argues for Independence From Iran
  3. ↑ Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization (ANRO); A Brief Introduction
  4. ↑ «Iran: Political Opposition Groups, Security Forces, Selected Human Rights Issues, Rule of Law COI Compilation July 2015 This report serves the specific purpose ...»
  5. ↑ آزربایجان میللی دیرنیش تشکیلاتی‌نین اینانج‌لار تمه‌لی
  6. ↑ The Tenth Anniversary of “Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization ” Was Commemorated
  7. ↑ Southern Azerbaijan during World War II
  8. ↑ Güney Azerbaycan Türklüğü nün Özgürlük Mücadelesi Yolunda Azerbaycan Millî Direniş Teşkilatı (AMDT)
  9. ↑ 21 AZER - A MOMENTOUS POPULAR MOVEMENT IN SOUTHERN AZERBAIJAN
  10. ↑ Youtube:Iranian Foreign Minister: %40 of the Iranians speak Turkish
  11. ↑ South Azerbaijan (Guney Azerbaycan)
  12. ↑ THE RISE OF NATIONALISM AMONG IRANIAN AZERBAIJANIS: A STEP TOWARD IRAN’S DISINTEGRATION?
  13. ↑ آزربایجان میللی دیرنیش تشکیلاتی‌نین اینانج‌لار تمه‌لی
  14. ↑ South Azerbaijan is not Iran
  15. ↑ Youtube: South Azerbaijan is not Iran

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