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| Anar was born in Tehran on January 13, 2015. |
The Tehran Registration Office claims that the name Anar is meaningless and foreign.
“The Tehran Registration Office claims that the name Anar is foreign and meaningless. However, this name has a clear meaning in Turkish,” said Elyas Nemətpur, a resident of Tehran, explaining to the media why Iranian authorities had not issued a birth certificate for his son, born on January 13.
A few days after his child’s birth, Elyas Nematpur applied to the Tehran Civil Registration Office, and a description of the invoice for the fee he paid to the office was published by Oyan News.
According to the information released, although little Anar was born in Tehran, the registration office refused to issue a birth certificate and later forwarded his file to his father’s birthplace in the city of Kaleybar, East Azerbaijan.
“Unfortunately, the Kaleybar Registration Office also refused to issue a birth certificate with this name,” Nemətpur said.
Recently, some families in Iran who have been unable to obtain birth certificates for their children with chosen names have begun sharing their experiences with the press.
The Nemətpur family is the third family to report to the media that they were unable to obtain a birth certificate for their child with a Turkish name from Iranian state agencies. The Yusifi family, after “months of work, debate, and persistence,” was able to obtain a birth certificate for their son, Alp Orhan, according to their statement to the media.
Earlier, Firuz Yusifi told Voice of America that many Turkish families living in Azerbaijan provinces and other cities in Iran face the same problem and are generally forced to choose another name for their children.
Link to the original text in Turkish on the Azerbaijani section of Voice of America:
İranın dövlət qurumu Anar adında uşağa da şəxsiyyət vəsiqəsi verməyib