It doesn't concern me what people from Azerbaijan republic (an independent state) are calling themselves as I do not belong to that state. I care about Iran where I was born and in Iran and esp among educated classes nobody introduces themselves as Turk this and Persian that. People tell their origin city or town mostly. That's why we hear surnames like Tabrizi, Kashani, Sherazi, Zanjani etc usually based on where the family has been living for a long time. My own surname is tribal affiliation driven but that is not the usual practice. In Iran the geography matters more than ethnic background because Iran as a nation is built by continuous cultural symbiosis not by single ethnicity dominating others like in other countries neighboring Iran. Current leader of Iran is an Azeri Turk. Next one may also be an Azeri. No one including themselves care who they are by ethnicity.
Parni were East Iranic Parni. Not a single shred of evidence exists that they were something else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parni
You are wrong. Azerbaijanis from Iran on average cluster close to neighboring Iranic Kurds around them. I would rather believe in peer reviewed published papers comprising of averages of hundreds of people than few results here and there that can serve as someones biased agenda.
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And Anatolian Turkish themselves are majorly native people. Look at the average Turkish autosomal proportions and compare it to Iranians, Armenians and to some extent also neighboring Syrians. Then compare it to other Turkic like Uzbeks.
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This is a Turkish paper itself which puts CA Turkoman influence in Turkish population is at ~20-22 % on average. If Turkish are like 78-80 % on average native to their geography then obviously neighbouring Median Iranian origin population will cluster closer to them because of proximity. It makes perfect sense. None of the populations of these regions on average cluster close to CA Turkic populations. Admixture and layering is there but saying that they are the same thing is plainly wrong.
https://doi.org/10.1186%2F1471-2164-15-963
It matters none because same logic applies to any racial group on earth. How much genetic similarity A Muhacir Turkish has with Kazakh Turkic ? Yet both are Turkic right.
% doesn't matter since my male line is purely Ghavanloo or Qoyunlu Qajar and is part of my extended surname as well and my multi ethnic family (Paternal Azeri - Maternal Kurdish) cherishes both origins. I am proud (not in a toxic way) of my warrior kizilbas lineage and nothing can change that.
If someone belongs to Bayat tribe and his family originates from Tabriz then they are Azeri (geographic origin) and Bayat (tribal origin). Ali Khamenei's grandfather used Tabrizi in his surname but he himself doesn't. Like I said in Iran ethnicity is considered lightly compared to Turkish society where ethnic classification is probably done in a rather more hardcore way. We may have few rotten traitors who fell to Elchibey propaganda in 90s but they are constantly being dealt with and will cease to exist with time.
Thank you for saying nothing in response to Safavid Kurdish male line ancestry. I know its a shocker for most online bigots.
Safavid Lingua Franca was settled as Persian to accommodate 1) Persian speaking administration 2) provide jobs to newer generation Kizilbas Turkics who were becoming more mainstream. Safavid Shahs literally got entire 1000 page Shahnameh written in Persian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safavi...rks_and_Tajiks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh_of_Shah_Tahmasp
You may assume that Persianization of Iranian society is probably Persian ethnic dominance but in reality it is more of a socio-political glue that binds the nation together and has less to do with Persian ethnicity.
Iranian Azerbaijanis are 98-99 % Shia and Republic is 70-75 % Shia. That is a very high number coming from neutral sources.
https://www.pewforum.org/2009/10/07/...im-population/
https://web.archive.org/web/20100113...population.pdf
Please provide proof that Salmas and Xoy are majority Sunni. Here is my counter claim, Sunnis in Salmas are literal minorities and are some Shekak and Jalali Kurds while thickest majority Azeris Qaragozlu, Ayromlou etc will be Shias. These areas were populated by Kizilbas Shia muhacirs who Prince Abbas Mirza Qajar personally settled there.
That is exactly what I am and so were people who defeated ottoman invader multiple times. Last proper battle between Iran and Turkey resulted into a half Azeri half Gorji Iranian Prince delivering a crushing defeat to Ottomans at Erzurum deep inside Turkish territory. Now his Dawlatshahi descendants live in Tehran mostly and speak Persian. You will never understand Iran.