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| The copy of Tarkan Gharibi's ID card |
Iran’s registration authority had not been issuing an ID card for approximately two years to a child named Tarkan, the son of the Gharibi family, who lived in Tehran.
Tarkan’s father, Rahim Gharibi, announced that his struggle, which began in July 2021, had borne fruit and that his son now had an ID card. According to the Telegram channel of Abbas Lisani, Rahim Gharibi also shared a copy of the ID card bearing Tarkan’s name.
The Gharibi family had previously shared on social media that Iran’s registration authority had refused to issue an ID card to their son with the Turkish name they had chosen.
Families in Iranian Azerbaijan and Tehran have been trying to make their voices heard on social media, as many have been unable to obtain an ID card for their children with the Turkish names they selected for months or even years.
Earlier, it was shared on social media that Iranian officials had refused to issue ID cards for names such as Alp Orhan, Sevgi, Yağış, Oğuz Kaan, Onur, Alparslan, Atakan, Ayıl, Anar, Türkay, and Volkan. Some of these names were later registered after families' repeated applications to registration authorities or the courts.
In recent years, there has been an increasing number of families in various provinces of Iran with Turkish populations who are choosing Turkish names for their children. These families tend to prefer names that are especially popular in Turkey. Civil registration authorities in different cities often cite the fact that the names chosen by families are not of Iranian or Islamic origin, are foreign, or are not on the list, and therefore refuse to issue ID cards.
Link to the original text in Turkish on the Azerbaijani section of Voice of America:
İran rəsmiləri 2 il sonra Tarkan adlı uşağa şəxsiyyət vəsiqəsi verilməsini qəbul edib