Is it common knowledge in Azerbaijan that South Azerbaijanis call themselves Turks?
So for context in Iran, the words Iranian Azerbaijanis use to call themselves is Turk(Tüh&Tühlər/tütdər in the local dialect) and the language is called türki.
Azeri is actually very rarely used, it's mostly used by Persian nationalists who say Azerbaijanis are not Turkic and only Turkic-tongued, so it's okay if the language is gone because it's non-native (A lot of Persians call us Turks(they pronounce it Tork) as well though not probably in online spaces).
I've seen some people who assume are Azerbaijanis from the republic get very offended online when someone says Azerbaijani Turk, not sure what the situation there is.
This has also caused some other problems since most people here use the word "türkiyəli" to refer to Anatolian Turks since it'd be awkward to just call them Turks when that's the word you use for yourself but this is also a very offensives word in Turkey and almost no one here knows that.
Posted Aug 29, 2026, 1:33 PM UTC