A NEW
CASE OF LOGOPHOBIA:
“THEY
WANT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF
THE
KHAZAR SEA AGAIN!...”
Ramazan Ali
Sadeghzadeh, who is an MP of the Islamic Consultancy
Assembly, made a motion to the Presidency of the Assembly
regarding changing the name of KHAZAR Sea into “Kaspian” on
January 22, 2008. It is claimed that the reason of this
unexpected initiative is the idea that the name KHAZAR
belongs to an ancient Turkish tribe and this name which has
been used for centuries does a great damage to the Persians.
The Islamic
Consultancy Assembly Research Center, which is charged by
the Presidency of the Assembly on this motion, gave a
‘positive’ opinion on it and stated as follows: “From now on
it is appropriate to use the name Deryaye Kaspian in the
study books and maps prepared by the Ministry of National
Education and from now on the new name of KHAZAR Sea will be
used in the foreign embassies and consulates.”
The milieus
who are supporting to change the name of KHAZAR Sea
emphasize that the above-mentioned change must be made to
avoid the problems in the future regarding the Persian Gulf
and that the Arabs still insistently use the Arabic Gulf for
the Persian Gulf.
The public
said about the initiative, which made a great impact on the
southern Azerbaijani public opinion, that the Iranian regime
could not tolerate names and expressions that emphasize
being a Turkish and that reminds the Turkish civilizations,
which were founded in the Iranian territory before, that’s
why they want to use the name Kaspian which emphasizes the
Kaspi civilization who lived in the region before and who
were a member of the Aryan race (Irani).
This
initiative is called a new LOGOPHOBIA incident in the
Southern Azerbaijani society. The Iranian government wanted
to realize this initiative in the past by changing the name
of KHAZAR Sea into “Mazenderan”.
