Turkey formed wonderful relationship with Iran and even voted in support of its nuclear program in the UN Security Council. Oman, Qatar has good working relationship with Iran countries in North Africa had decent relationship with Iran. After Syrian imbroglio and Iran’s policy to support...
I think by vehemently supporting Al-Assad in almost 2 year long battle; Iran lost the support of all the predominantly Sunnite Muslim countries of the region and beyond. Supporting Al-Assad till death attitude of Iranian leadership has isolated the country most since the late Khomeini’s...
Ir._ Tab & Tariz_ Azari , my heartfelt condolences for the victim of this natural calamity, may god bless you all in give you people strength to handle this great tragedy.
Inter and Intra political discussions strengthen democracy and individual ability to analyze all the parameters of certain issue or incident. I would like to know your view on the point raised by Armstrong. I have learned a bit Ayatollah Shariatmandri & Ayatollah Ali al Muntazari and their...
with my little knowledge of linguistics and phonetics the difference you mentioned in the two languages are being created by the changed script of Turkish from Arabic to Roman by Kemalists.
AFAIK Turkish & Turkic is a ethno-lingual idetity and azeri Turkish is a ethno-geographical identity. It is a branch of wider Turkish & Turkic tree. Yes Persian has huge influence on Turkish language & culture that is spoken in Persian controlled region.
My friend i am not talking about the script that predates Islamic conquest of Persia, tell me about present day script of Azeri Turkish in your region. This language remained only in spoken form and very little modern literature is available. Only few news papers are being published from Tabriz...
I think Turkey got permitted by Burmese Junta to land its aid aircraft with high profile dignitaries only with the backing of China. Though a good gesture by Turkey doing great humanitarian work from Somalia to Burma. The international stature of Turkey is improving rapidly .
Iranian move to use PKK + PJAK to pressurize Turkey for Its Syrian policy is not surprising, with the ever changing permutations and combinations of the Middle Eastern Geopolitics new friends and new foes are being automatically created. It reminds me the LTTE saga and its impact on India...
Iran lost the war with imperial Russia in early 18th century and subsequently was forced to sign the treaty Gulistan and ceded the land that is Azerbaijan Republic.
Treaty of Gulistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How many schools, institutes, universities in Iranian Azerbaijan teach there curriculum in Azeri Turkish, what about education in Azeri Turkish and of Azeri Turkish in present day Iran? Are you a linguist? The old Azeri Turkish script is Arabic like the Anatolian Turkish before Kemalist changed...
If you analyze the geopolitics before the Arab spring, the relationship of Turkey with its neighbor Iran,Iraq and Syria was excellent and grown to the strategic level. flashback 2009-2010 the whole spectrum of middle eastern geopolitics was shifting against Israel. in 2011 Arab spring took place...