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Fraction of Turkic regions

Fraction of Turkic regions () is a cross-factional parliamentary group in the Iranian Parliament, established in 30 October 2016 by Iranian Turkic representatives. On 26 August 2016, 42 Turkic members of the Iranian parliament wrote a letter to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, requesting that the Turkic Language and Literature course be added to the curriculum of primary and secondary schools. When the request was not met positively, this group of 42 people called other Turkic deputies to come together and established the Fraction of Turkic regions, consisting of 100 deputies. This fraction formally claims to have 100 parliamentary members, however privately its members have admitted to have only 60 of overall 290 parliament members within their faction. Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian has been selected as leader of fraction and hard-liner Nader Ghazipour and Reza Karimi as 1st and 2d deputy respectively. Zahra Saei, a female MP from Tabriz, was also elected as the group spokesperson.

It was announced that the group had a central committee of 25 deputies. After the faction was announced, Persian deputies in the Iranian parliament reacted to the group and described the group's ethnic name as separatism. The group's ethnic structure caused intense backlash in the Iranian media. As a result of the backlash, the group announced that it was dissolving itself on 10 August 2017.

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