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سخنراني نماينده سازمان دفاع از حقوق
ملي خلق ترکمن در پارلمان سوئد
Organisation for
the Turkmen people national rights
Turkmen
Minority in Iran
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The
22th November 2004 at the Swedish Parliament, a symposium
was held concerning the national minorities in Iran. At the
symposium people from all around the world was gathered. They
represented different organisation whose members came from all
around Europe and USA.
Here
is a part of the speech held by the representative for the
Organisation for the Turkmen peoples national rights.
Ladies and Gentleman , Countrymen and guests!
From the Turkmen
people I give you my warm greetings. It is a great delight to see
you all hear today where we discuss about Iran’s future for
encouragement of democracy and federalism.
It is a great step
that this symposium has been possible to carry out. I want to convey
my gratitude to those who have spent time and enabled this
symposium, among those the Swedish Parliament, Bahram Atabeyli ,
Göran Lindblad , Dr Manaf and other hardworking friends.
I am representing the
Organisation for the Turkmen people national rights.
We the Turkmen are a
people of 3 Million, living in the North of Iran called
TurkmenSahra. Our faith is the Sunni branch of Islam, and we speak
Turkmen as our mother tongue.
As you already have
heard several times during this symposium, Iran is a multi-ethnic
state- a state with several nationalities. Since ancient times the
Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Turkmen’s, Baloch’s, Arabs, and Lors have been
living peacefully together side by side. These people have their own
language, their own lifestyle and traditions.
The current regime in
Iran and their forerunners have always ignored the facts that there
are different nationalities in Iran. The official language of Iran
is Persian and the official religion is Shia written in the § 12 of
the Iranian constitution.
Considering the fact
that, the majority of Iran’s population is discriminated by law.
This is maybe the main reason for all bloody conflicts.
The Islamic government
uses the Islamic law “Sharia” and the Shia branch of Islam as an
instrument to control and rule after their own fancy (will). This
have led to the point where the Turkmen people have been deprived
from their basic human rights not only basis of political rights but
also all rights connected to fundamental human rights such as to
write and read in your mother tongue. Since the last struggle,
during the revolution and the aftermath, were the Turkmen’s fought
in the Gonbad war for a federal and justice –system in Iran the
Turkmen people have been suppressed both systematically and
economically by the government.
Despite that the
region has the best agriculture opportunities in Iran to grow cotton
and other crops there haven’t been even a single investment.
Therefore the workers are still using old-traditional methods to
harvest their cultivation.
This economical
suppression has led to the half of the agriculture industries have
been forced to close , ( whipped out) and a great unemployment and
poverty as a result.
Not enough with that,
the Turkmen’s is forced (subdued) to live under heavily
surveillance both military and by police
forces. This surveillance comes with the assimilations program whose
only purpose was in the past regime and is in the current regime to
totally exterminate, eliminate the Turkmen people from their
language, their lifestyle, their traditions and identity. This
brutal assimilations program isn’t only restricted to the Turkmen’s
but also to the other nationalities, as the Kurd’s, Azerbaijanis,
Arabs, Baloch’s and Lors. We are considered by the regime as second
or third citizens after the Persian’s.
This systematically and
economically oppression is displayed by different methods. One of
these methods is where people are receiving
jobs by the government not
because of their experience or competence but by the fact that there
are Persians. Other measures taken by the government to assimilate
the Turkmen’s is to build 200 new villages in Turkmen Sahra,( the
region of the Turkmen’s.) The villages are been built in the heart
of the region to outnumber the majority of Turkmen’s and to the
border of Turkmenistan, who’s purpose is to totally prevent any
contact at all between the Turkmen’s in Iran and Turkmenistan.
This
assimilation in our region is put to practise by settlement of
thousands of families from other region. These families are granted
free land, territory free house and a job by the government.
Considering that the given land, territory isn’t owned by government
but is by forced deprived from the common Turkmen people.
The
assimilation program that the Turkmen’s is exposed to is
unacceptable and must be strongly condemned.
We from
the Organisation for the Turkmen peoples National rights want to put
an end to the suppression that we and our fellow countrymen are
exposed to and together create an free, democratically, and
federal Iran.
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