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The Ardabil Registration Department refused to issue an ID card for the name "Dolunay" chosen by the Sadighifar family for their newborn. In Tabriz, however, the court approved the complaint of the Jebrayili family, who had been unable to get an ID card for their son with the name "Baycan."
According to Southern Azerbaijan Television (Günaz TV) news, officials from Iran's civil registration department cited that the name "Dolunay" was not on the list of approved names.
Based on the information from Günaz TV, after the Ardabil Department refused to issue the ID card, Said Sadighifar sent an appeal to the department's capital office along with copies of the pages from a Turkish dictionary where the name "Dolunay" was listed. However, the officials at the Ardabil office told him that "99 percent of the names in these dictionaries are not approved. Choose another name for your child!"
In Tabriz, after receiving a refusal from the registration department, Ramin Jebrayili appealed to the general court of Tabriz, which ruled in his favor. The Jebrayili family had been trying to get an ID card for their son, born about two months ago, with the name "Baycan."
The court decision shared by Abbas Lisani on his Telegram channel stated that the name "Baycan" is appropriate for a male child.
In recent years, it has been observed that the number of families in regions where Turks live in Iran choosing Turkish names for their children has increased. According to a statement made by the Zanjan Registration Department in September, "Ayhan" was the most popular male name in Zanjan province during the first half of the 1402 Hijri year.
In Iranian Azerbaijan and Tehran, families who have been unable to obtain ID cards for their children with Turkish names for months or even years have been trying to make their voices heard through social media. Previously, it was shared on social media that Iranian officials had refused to issue ID cards for names like Alp Orhan, Sevgi, Yağış, Oğuz Kaan, Onur, Alparslan, Atakan, Huntay, Hunay, Ayıl, Hakan, Elcan, Elin, Anar, Türkay, Tarkan, and Volkan. Some of these names were later registered after families repeatedly appealed to the registration departments or courts.
Link to the original text in Turkish on the Azerbaijani section of Voice of America:
Ərdəbil qeydiyyat şöbəsi ‘Dolunay’ adı ilə şəxsiyyət vəsiqəsi verməyib, ‘Baycan’ adına isə məhkəmədən icazə gəlib