The Socio-Historical Study of Emergence of Pan-Turkism in Azerbaijan, Iran

The main question of this article is how pan-Turkism was formed in Iran. To answer this question, we divided the Iranian contemporary history into three eras and studied the characteristics of Azeri movements in those eras. To gather the data, we used the path dependence method. Based on this method when a phenomenon is shaped in a historical point, it is hard or impossible to go back to the previous condition. The study showed that the state of Azerbaijan was relatively independent in Qajar period. However, following modernization process by Reza Shah, made Azeries focus on their own language, ethnicity, and culture. That is why after the Shah was exiled, pan-Turkism emerged in our history for the first time.