lol you're a feisty little fellow aren't you?
what hate?
and no I haven't been to Turkey but I don't need to. There are 20 million azeri turks in Iran and Iran and Turkey are neighbors.
I see why your viewpoint is like this...
IMMIGRANT TURKS IN IRAN, ATTACK ARMENIANS, IRANIAN
GOVERNEMNT
March 3, 2006
Appo Jabarian
Managing Editor, Executive Publisher
USA Armenian Life Magazine
Hye Kiank Armenian Weekly
According to various news sources, a group of
immigrant Turks residing in Tavriz, Iran, gathered on
February 27 in a violent demonstration in front of a
local Armenian church, chanting anti-Christian,
anti-Iranian, and anti-Armenian slogans.
The Turkish protesters inside Iran, mostly from the
neighboring Republics of Azerbaijan and Turkey, held
the demonstration under the cover of being
anti-Armenian and anti-Christian. But they also aimed
it at the Iranian government.
On one hand, they expressed “dissatisfaction” against
the Iranian government’s “suppression” of their Turkic
language and culture. On the other, they cried: “we
want the destruction of Armenia.”
The destruction by the Army of the Republic of
Azerbaijan in late 2005, of thousands of “Khach-kars”
(Armenian cross headstones), some as old as eight
centuries, inside the Turkish/Azeri-occupied Armenian
province of Nakhitchevan, seemingly did not satisfy
the Turkic demonstrators’ appetite for destruction.
The demonstrators, who were not granted permit by the
Iranian internal security authorities, were eventually
forced to disband.
The Armenian Prelacy of Iran issued a statement
thanking the Iranian government for its timely
response in averting yet new calamities against
Armenians at the hands of immigrant Turks inside Iran.
At the same time, the Armenian Prelate appealed the
members of the Iranian-Armenian community for
refraining from escalating the adverse situation
caused by Turkish provocateurs.
During recent decades, the extremist Turks from Turkey
and Azerbaijan, armed with pan-Turkism, have embarked
on a disinformation campaign aimed at brainwashing the
northern Iranians, also known as Iranian Azerbaijanis,
as belonging to Turkic ethnicity.
Recently, in open cooperation with immigrant Turks
inside Iran, Turks in US and elsewhere, have initiated
an anti-Iranian on-line petition. In a message
addressed to the Director-General of UNESCO, Mr.
Koïchiro Matsuura, the petitioners claimed the
existence of an “issue which affects more than 30
million people in Iran. On behalf of Azeris in Iran,
we ask that you take action to protect our mother
tongue.”
“Pan-Turkism is a racist movement that not only
threatens Iran, but (also) Greece, Armenia, Russia,
Ukraine and even, to a certain extent, China. If
unchecked, Pan-Turkism may become as dangerous to
international peace and stability, as Islamic
fundamentalism has become today,” says Dr. Kaveh
Farrokh, of the University of British Columbia in
Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Farrokh himself is an norhern
Iranian, also known as Iranian Azerbaijani.
Continues Dr. Farrokh: “Geopolitics and petroleum
diplomacy is using pan-Turkism to promote a nefarious
and self-serving economic agenda. Pan-Turkic
activists, supported by (economically and) politically
motivated western academic outlets, are literally
re-narrating world history. And in this quest, they
have tragically misled many well intentioned but naïve
individuals. Many believe in a series of facts, events
and a past history that never was. Veracity is falling
victim to racism, especially in the inherent
anti-Persian agenda (that is) propelled by
geopolitical petroleum diplomacy.”
According to several well-informed Iranian experts,
the majority of northern Iranians, also known as
Iranian Azerbaijanis, when asked if they are from the
Mongol-Turkic extract, their answer is a categorical
“NO”.
Apparently, ultra-nationalist Turks have not yet given
up on the ill-fated, and now-defunct Turkish
imperialism.
Before they go any further, it would be wise to
solicit the opinion of the former involuntary
component Armenian, Arab, Assyrian, Kurdish, Greek,
and Bulgarian nations of Ottoman Turkey and the uneasy
neighbors of Iran, Georgia, and Russia.