Brother, I am not downgrading my ethnicity at all. Our ancestors have done lots of things that I am proud of them. Azeris were the ones who revived Iran after arabs invasion.
Iran was almost get forgotten by Iranians and they were assimilating to arabs, and others, but we were the ones who revived a country after 900 years. We, azeris, were the ones who brought constitution and freedom to Iran by giving 300,000 martyrs of our best people. The list is very long. many people were living in nomad forms in Iranian and Anatolian plateau from thousands of years ago. still 2% of Iran's population are nomads. some of them are turkic, and some of them are not. There is no pure mono-ethnic person. we all have some mix genetics. Actually, I am trying to say that we have inherited a rich heritage and I try to respect all part of it , and not just turkic part of it