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| Commander of Tehran Amaken Police, Colonel Nader Moradi |
Using non-Persian languages such as Turkish, Kurdish, and Luri for the names of businesses and commercial establishments is prohibited in Tehran, according to an official statement by Tehran police to the semi-official "Mehr" News Agency.
Colonel Nader Moradi, commander of Tehran Police’s Public Places Supervision Division (Amaken), stated that the names of businesses in Tehran must strictly be in Persian.
“The authority responsible for overseeing the names of businesses and commercial establishments is the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. According to instructions sent to the police by the Ministry, the names of businesses must be in Persian,” the colonel explained.
Colonel Moradi added, “It is prohibited and against the law to use local languages such as Turkish, Kurdish, and Luri for the names of businesses and commercial establishments in the capital. According to the directive sent to the police, business names belonging to local languages can only be used in provinces or cities where those languages are native. For instance, Turkish names can only be used in provinces predominantly inhabited by Turks.”
According to figures from the government-affiliated "Public Culture Council," over 30% of the population in Tehran Province is composed of Turks.
In Iranian Azerbaijan and Tehran, some families struggle for months or even years to register Turkish names for their children on official documents.
Link to the original news in Turkish on the Azerbaijani section of Voice of America:
Tehran Polisi: Paytaxtda ticarət obyektləri üçün qeyri-fars adlardan istifadə etmək yasaqdır