The "TRACTOR F.C." social media page, operating under the name of Iran's "Tractor" football club, reacted strongly to the headscarf discussions related to Azerbaijan in Turkey. The post brought up the issue of the right to education in their mother tongue for millions of Turks living in Iran.
Modern.az reports that the post compared the reaction of some circles in Turkey to the school uniform rules in Azerbaijan with their attitude towards the language rights of Turks in Iran.
"There can be no headscarf ban in a Muslim country, but there can be Turkish hostility?
Approximately 40 million Turks live in Iran. However, for more than 100 years, education in Turkish has been banned in schools. No one can speak their own language. No one can name their child in Turkish. No one can give Turkish names to their company, store, and other facilities. Only Persian and Arabic are allowed. Even the president is barely allowed to speak his own language," the post claimed.
The authors of the page addressed those who joined the discussions about the headscarf in Azerbaijani schools in Turkey, stating that they did not approach the problems of Turks in Iran with the same sensitivity.
"Azerbaijan has become an enemy of your brothers for several weeks due to the headscarf ban. But you do not raise your voice against the assimilation policy carried out against Muslim Turks living in Iran for 100 years.
If the rights of Muslims are so important to you, if you talk about humanity, are not the people here Muslims? Why are you silent when it comes to Iran?" the post emphasized.
Thus, the "TRACTOR F.C." page's post claimed that there were double standards in the attitude towards the right to education in the mother tongue for Turks in Iran, against the backdrop of criticisms directed at Azerbaijan's school uniform rules in Turkey.
It should be noted that the main language of instruction in Iran is Persian. Although Article 15 of the country's Constitution allows the use of regional languages in the media and the teaching of the literature of those languages in schools, the limited opportunities for general education in the mother tongue have been a subject of discussion for many years.
