The fearful apology of iranian National TV, termination of the “Fetileh” show and dismissal of the deputy director of broadcasting came too little and too late as the people of South Azerbaijan stormed into the streets of almost all major cities of S. Azerbaijan including Tabriz, Urumiyeh, Ardebil, Zengan, Marand, Marageh, Sulduz(Naghadeh) and even the capital Tehran in another attempt to stop the most disgusting type of racism demonstrated against 40 million Turkic citizens by iran’s official media.
Urmiyeh-Urmu, S. Azerbaijan’s cultural capital was the very first city to ignite the anti-racism demonstrations immediately followed by people of Tabriz, Zengan, Sulduz, Ardebil and even the capital Tehran.
Demonstrators raised signs and banners calling for equality among the ethnic communities and demanded education and national TV programs in their mother language-Azerbaijani Turkic. They also demanded immediate cessation of all types of persian racism, an apology by the head of National Broadcasting Council and the minister of culture.

There were violent clashes between persian security forces and the Turkic protesters in Tehran, Tabriz, Marand,Ardebil, Marageh, Sulduz and some other regions. The security forces fired plastic bullets and used water cannons and tear gas to suppress the protesters. Many protesters are reported to have been injured and hundreds have been arrested.

BACKGROUND

Iran’s National TV channel ( shebekey e 2) aired “Fetileh Hotel ” a program supposedly intended to train children. During the final episode of the show, the actors made mockery of ethnic Turks as they insinuated that Turks are idiots and uneducated as they are not even able to even make a distinction between a tooth brush and a toilet brush!

The show which was broadcasted on November 6th 2015 by Iran’s state TV depicted an Turkic father along with his son who stayed in the “hotel”. it was shown that the father comes to the hotel’s reception and complains about an unbearable odor in the room. The “manager of the hotel” later on, “finds out” the unbearable odor is actually coming from the kid’s mouth ” because the boy had mixed up the toilet brush with the tooth brush and brushed his teeth with the toilet brush.”!!!
The boy also tells to his father in Turkic: ” Dad, let’s leave this hotel. I think they fed us with “sewage” for dinner last night!”

Azerbaijani Turkic, the language of over 40 million Turks in Iran, has been strictly banned from schools and national TV channels for the last century. However, to everyone’s surprise the entire conversation exchanged between “the father and son” in the last episode of Fetileh show was in Turkic, obviously ill-intended to insinuate and propagate that the Turks are ignorant and illiterate.

Images of protests in Urmu,Tabriz, Zengan, Sulduz, Ardebil and even the capital Tehran.