Abstract:
Ethnicity, is a kind of cultural perception that members consider their values and norms to be superior. It is a cultural and social opposition to other groups that has a multi-generational persistence and is studied in the context of cultural and social divisions. In its ancient history, Azerbaijan has had a continuous geographical-political, social and cultural unity with Iran, and throughout Iran, it has been the common property of Azerbaijan, like other ethnic groups. In recent decades, the social phenomenon of ethnicity has been one of the strategic policies of foreign powers and neighbors with the aim of creating divisions among Iranian ethnic groups. The United States, Turkey, the Republic of Azerbaijan, Russia, the Zionist regime, some European countries and Saudi Arabia are trying to form separatist movements. Ethnicity is a new phenomenon in the policies of the great arrogant powers and has no internal nature and the integration of Azerbaijan with Iran over the centuries shows this. In this research, the phenomenon of ethnicity has been studied based on a qualitative approach and historical method.
Machine summary:
The increase in virtual communications and cross-border relations, border living, low development indicators, provocation by ethnic nationalists and linguistic neighbors, supra-regional forces, and foreign actors have enabled separatist ethnic activists to work through academic centers, public and sports venues—via cultural, political, and artistic activities including sports competitions, electoral gatherings, artistic arenas, mass media, and cyberspace—to distort historical and geographical identity and foster public pessimism toward national sovereignty, thereby creating challenges in the path of unity and territorial integrity.
The activities of ethnic nationalists from the beginning of the second half of the nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century can be divided into five stages: 1) The initial stages in the Russian Empire through the cultural efforts of non-Russian intellectuals and in territories that, since the early decades of the nineteenth century, through conquest military, had been annexed to Russian territory; 2) The stage of converting Pan-Turkic ideology into the official strategy of the Ottoman government through intellectuals and the leadership cores of the Young Turks with the ideology and strategy of the new government; 3) The stage of isolation; following defeat and the abandonment of romanticism and adventurism; 4) The stage of gradual infiltration into state policies, which also infiltrated the military sectors of Turkey; 5) The collapse of the Soviet Union, the ethnic temptations of the Turkish state, and the intense need of newly independent countries for nation-building (Lando, 1995: adaptation) provided the best opportunity for Pan-Turkist circles in Turkey, and ethnic nationalism once again entered the political literature of the new rulers of the Republic of Azerbaijan as an idea and a demand, such that at certain periods in the short history of this country, the claims of its politicians regarding the territorial integrity of Iran reach their peak.
External Influencing Factors Ethnic nationalist ideas in Azerbaijan are a foreign scheme to create tension among ethnic groups and to strive for secession in the Islamic world and Muslim nations, in which several important actors, namely Turkey, the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Zionist regime, the United States, several European countries, and recently Saudi Arabia, play prominent roles in accordance with their own interests and motivations.
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