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TV series Magnificient Century sued for depicting Safavis as Persian
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An Azeri man has filed a complaint against popular TV series “Muhteşem Yüzyıl” (The Magnificent Century) for its depiction of Safavis as Persian.

Mahboub Amrahy, a dentist working at Ankara’s Hacettepe University Hospital, filed a complaint against the series on the grounds that it depicted Safavis as Persians, according to daily Cumhuriyet.

“In the 115th episode of the series, the Safavis are depicted as a Persian state, thus insulting and denying my history and people. I am a Turkish-origin Azeri from Iran and I am filing complaint against the series,” Amrahy added, in the complaint submitted to the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s office.

The prosecutor accepted the complaint, but it is not clear whether the complaint will be sent to Istanbul, where the firm that shoots the series is located.

Veteran historian Prof. Dr. İlber Ortaylı said the Safavi state was both Azeri and Turk, adding that the founder of the Safavi dynasty, Shah İsmail, wrote poems in Turkish. “There is no problem with saying that the Safavi state’s name is Iranian, but if you say its Persian then this is wrong,” Ortaylı said, criticizing the series makers for not consulting historians.

Historian Prof. İbrahim Ethem Atnur said the Safavi was a state founded by the “Kızılbaş” (Crimson/Red Heads) Turkmens, adding that it was not a Persian state. “If a state was founded in the lands where Iran is located today, people think it was Persian,” Atnur said.

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The Safavid dynasty was founded about 1501 by Shāh Ismāil I.[50] Shah Ismail's background is disputed: the language he used is not identical with that of his "race" or "nationality" and he was bilingual from birth.[51] Some scholars argue that Ismāil was of mixed Azeri, Kurdish, and Pontic Greek descent,[24] although others argue that he was non-Azeri[51] and was a direct descendant of Kurdish mystic Sheikh Safi al-Din. As such, he was the last in the line of hereditary Grand Masters of the Safaviyeh order, prior to its ascent to a ruling dynasty. Ismāil was known as a brave and charismatic youth, zealous with regards to his Shi’a faith, and believed himself to be of divine descent—practically worshipped by his Qizilbāsh followers. In 1500, Ismāil invaded neighboring Shirvan to avenge the death of his father, Sheik Haydar, who had been murdered in 1488 by the ruling Shirvanshah, Farrukh Yassar. Afterwards, Ismail went on a conquest campaign, capturing Tabriz in July 1501, where he enthroned himself the Shāh of Azerbaijan,[52][53][54] proclaimed himself Shahanshah of Iran[55][56][57] and minted coins in his name, proclaiming Shi’ism the official religion of his domain.[23] The establishment of Shi’ism as the state religion led to various Sufi orders openly declaring their Shi’i position, and others, to promptly assume Shi’ism. Among these, the founder of one of the most successful Sufi orders, Ni’matullah (d. 1431) traced his descent from the Ismaili Imam Muhammad b. Ismail, as evidenced in a poem as well as another unpublished literary composition. Though Nimatullah was apparently Sunni, the Ni’matullahi order soon declared his order to be Shi’I after the rise of the Safavid dynasty.[58]
Although Ismail I initially gained mastery over Azerbaijan alone, the Safavids ultimately won the struggle for power in all of Persia which had been going on for nearly a century between various dynasties and political forces. A year after his victory in Tabriz, Ismāil claimed most of Persia as part of his territory,[23] and within 10 years established a complete control over all of it. Ismail followed the line of Iranian and Turkmen rulers prior to him by assumption of the title "Padishah-i-Iran", previously held by Uzun Hasan and many other Iranian kings.[59] The Ottoman sultans addressed him as the king of Persian lands and the heir to Jamshid and Kai Khosrow.[60] Hamadan fell under his power in 1503, Shiraz and Kerman in 1504, Najaf and Karbala in 1507, Van in 1508, Baghdad in 1509, and Herat, as well as other parts of Khorasan, in 1510. By 1511, the Uzbeks in the north-east, led by their Khan Muhammad Shaybāni, were driven far to the north, across the Oxus River where they continued to attack the Safavids. Ismail's decisive victory over the Uzbeks, who had occupied most of Khorasan, ensured Iran's eastern borders, and the Uzbeks never since expanded beyond the Hindukush. Although the Uzbeks continued to make occasional raids to Khorasan, the Safavid empire was able to keep them at bay throughout its reign.

This concludes that Shah Ismail was Kurdish and that he founded the Safavid dynasty. There is nothing azeri with him. Typical azeris and turks to claim everything. But persians are even worse than turks and azeris
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Sheikh Safi-ad-din Is'haq Ardabili (of Ardabil) (1252–1334) (Persian: شیخ صفی‌الدین اردبیلی‎), was the Kurdish[1][2][3] eponym of the Safavid dynasty, and the spiritual heir and son in law of the great Sufi Murshid (Grand Master) Sheikh Zahed Gilani, of Lahijan in Gilan province in northern Iran. Most of what we know about him comes from the Safvat as-safa, a hagiography written by one of his followers.
Sheikh Safi al-Din's has composed poems in the Iranian dialect of old Tati.[4][5] He was a seventh-generation descendant of Firuz Shah Zarrin Kolah, a local Iranian dignitary.[6]


An etched figure of a giant hand, in Safi-ad-din Ardabili Mausoleum, showing Twelver Shi'a sign of Panj-tan-e Āl-e Abā
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Sheikh Safi al-Din inherited Sheikh Zahed Gilani's Sufi order, the "Zahediyeh", which he later transformed into his own, the "Safaviyya". Sheikh Zahed Gilani also gave his daughter Bibi Fatemeh in wedlock to his favorite disciple. Sheikh Safi al-Din, in turn, gave a daughter from a previous marriage in wedlock to Shaikh Zahed Gilani's second-born son. Over the following 170 years, the Safaviyya Order gained political and military power, finally culminating in the foundation of the Safavid dynasty.
Only a very few verses of Sheikh Safi al-Din's poetry, called Dobaytis (double verses), have survived. Written in old Tati and Persian, they have linguistic importance today.[7]
According to Minorsky, Sheykh Safi al-Din's ancestor Firuz-shah was a rich man, lived in Gilan and then Kurdish kings gave him Ardabil and its dependencies. Minorsky refers to Sheykh Safi al-Din's claims tracing back his origins to Hazrath Ali ibn Abu Talib, but expresses uncertainty about this.[8]
The male lineage of the Safavid family given by the oldest manuscript of the Safwat as-Safa is:"(Shaykh) Safi al-Din Abul-Fatah Ishaaq the son of Al-Shaykh Amin al-din Jebrail the son of al-Saaleh Qutb al-Din Abu Bakr the son of Salaah al-Din Rashid the son of Muhammad al-Hafiz al-Kalaam Allah the son of Javaad the son of Pirooz al-Kurdi al-Sanjani (Piruz Shah Zarin Kolah the Kurd of Sanjan)"[9] similar to the ancestry of Sheykh Safi al-Din's father in law, Sheikh Zahed Gilani, who also hailed from Sanjan, in Greater Khorassan.
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For them everything and one was either a turk or Persians
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Don't forget the Zandis right after the Safavids. ;)
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