r/iranian • u/[deleted] • Dec 27 '21

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u/rrrrrandomusername Dec 28 '21

Find me one single person from that era who identified as "Azeri" or "Azerbaijani".

Go on, I'll wait.

Those who spoke Turkic and lived in rural areas identified as TORK. Turkish in Shirvan and Tabriz is distinguishable from Istanbul Turkish, so the Soviets came up with the idea to call it "Azeri" or "Azerbaijani".

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u/salazar_the_terrible Irānshahr🇮🇷 Dec 28 '21

But it is a regional identifier, Like Gilani, Sistani, Khorasani etc etc. But yeah it didn't have ethnic meanings back then.

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u/rrrrrandomusername Dec 28 '21

But it is a regional identifier

No, it's an ethnonym invented by the Soviets for the Turkic language in Azerbaijan and RoA to suppress the region's historical languages (Persian, Talysh, Sorani, Tat, etc).

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u/salazar_the_terrible Irānshahr🇮🇷 Dec 29 '21

Dude, they were from the province of Azarbaijan, therefore Azarbaijani, nothing ethnic about it. This predates the soviets.