Statement of the Cooperation Council of Southern Azerbaijan Organizations on the Political Prisoners of Southern Azerbaijan
The racist policies of the Iranian terrorist regime against the Azerbaijani nation are intensifying day by day. Southern Azerbaijani Turk activists who stand against these discriminatory policies face heavy imprisonment, torture, and in some cases even physical assassination. Despite these pressures, Azerbaijani activists continue their struggle against the racist and terrorist Iranian regime with determination to defend their national rights.
The totalitarian regime of Iran, in an attempt to break the will of these activists, seeks to create an atmosphere of fear and silence the National Movement of Azerbaijan by fabricating charges and issuing harsh sentences. Yet in the face of these threats, national activists have launched hunger strikes and continue their path of resistance.
The Cooperation Council of Southern Azerbaijan Organizations (GATƏŞ) declares its support for these heroic activists and states:
All political prisoners — including all Turk activists — must be released unconditionally. GATƏŞ calls on international organizations to increase political and economic pressure on the racist and terrorist Iranian regime for the release of these activists. GATƏŞ urges the people of Southern Azerbaijan and the entire Turkic nation to support the national prisoners.
Azerbaijan! Stand with your heroic sons and daughters who have risked their lives for your national rights!
Their freedom depends on your resolve.
Let us turn the streets and the fronts of prisons into arenas of protest for the freedom of our political prisoners!
Cooperation Council of Southern Azerbaijan Organizations (GATƏŞ)
21 November 2025
