Investigating economic factors affecting ethnicity in Azerbaijan, Iran

Imani Darestani, Erfan

doi:10.22075/ijnaa.2023.30792.4492

Investigating economic factors affecting ethnicity in Azerbaijan, Iran

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Erfan Imani Darestani

Department of Economics and Political Science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

10.22075/ijnaa.2023.30792.4492

Abstract

Ethnicism among ethnic groups is one of the factors that endangers national cohesion and unity. Considering the events and incidents of the last few years in the Azerbaijan region and the historical precedent of the issue of Pan-Turkism, the issue of ethnicity in this region is considered a serious concern for the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has also received the attention of researchers. However, the impact of economic factors on the intensification or reduction of ethnicism in Iran's Azerbaijan has been neglected in research. Therefore, in this research, an attempt was made to investigate this issue by using the analytical-descriptive method and collecting data with a questionnaire from a sample of 292 Turkish language students and by referring to correlation and regression analyses. The results of this study showed that all the considered assumptions have been confirmed and that political ethnicity in Azerbaijan has a statistically significant and direct relationship with the improvement of national economic indicators, the improvement of economic indicators of Turkish-speaking countries and an inverse relationship with the increase of interactions with It has other Turkic speaking countries and other regions of Iran.

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