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| Anar Nemetpur |
A seven-year-old Turkish child living in Iran could not attend school this year because of his Turkish name and the fact that the Iranian Registration Department did not issue him an ID card.
According to a relative of Anar, who spoke to Voice of America, he has reached school age and is 7 years old, but the school administration refused to register him because the Tehran Registration Department did not issue him an ID card.
Anar Nemetpur was born in January 2015 to an Azerbaijani family from the city of Kaleibar, Tehran. Despite his father’s repeated attempts to obtain an ID card for his son under the name Anar from the Tehran Registration Department, the requests were unsuccessful. Even though Anar’s parents applied to the Registration Departments in Kaleibar and Tabriz, their efforts to obtain an ID card for their child were in vain.
In May, Ibrahim Rashidi (Savalan) revealed the situation on his Facebook page, warning that if the ID card was not issued before the school year started, the child would likely be deprived of education.
As the school year approaches and the registration period is nearing its end, Anar’s relatives are reporting that he has been deprived of education this year.
Anar’s father, İlyas Nemetpur, in his repeated applications to the Registration Department, criticized the department's leadership for not making a decision regarding his son's name and intervening in his choice of name.
The right to an ID card and the right to education are among the rights of children as stipulated in the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. Article 28 of this convention emphasizes the child’s right to education.
In Iran, the growing desire of parents to give their children Turkish names, coupled with opposition from the Registration Department, which is under the Ministry of the Interior, has led to many children living without citizenship rights for months or even years due to the lack of an ID card.
Link to the original text in Turkish on the Azerbaijani section of Voice of America:
Anar Nemətpur şəxsiyyət vəsiqəsi olmadığı üçün təhsildən məhrum edilib