Five Turk activists have been summoned by the judiciary in the cities of Ahar and Tabriz, northwest of Iran.
Meysam Jolani, Akbar Abolzadeh, Morteza Safari, Majid Naghizadeh and Mansour Seifi from Ardebil, also northwest of Iran, have been summoned to Tabriz and Ahar’s courts, mostly for attending a ceremony marking “International Native Language Day” back in 2015.
Prior to this a number of Turk activists were summoned to the same courts.
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