Kurds in Sweden
Kurds in Sweden| Total population |
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(50,000[1] [0.5% of the Swedish population]) |
| Regions with significant populations |
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Huddinge, Botkyrka, Västerås, Gothenburg, Örebro, Stockholm, Uppsala, Dalarna, Karlstad, Malmö, Borlänge |
| Languages |
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Kurdish, Swedish (some knowledge of Turkish, Arabic and Persian) |
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Majority Islam |
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Iranian people |
Kurds in Sweden may refer to people born in or residing in the Sweden of Kurdish origin.
Most Kurdish people in Sweden live in the capital Stockholm or in Uppsala.[1]
A majority of Kurdish political refugees choose Sweden as their host country and therefore they have a cultural presence in Sweden.[2] As of 2016, 5 MPs in the Swedish parliament is of Kurdish descent.
Chronological Kurdish arrivals to Sweden
- 1967-1970 Two Kurdish students from south Kurdistan were expelled and fled to Sweden where they continued their studies.
- 1971-1975 A military coup in Turkey and the peace agreement in Iraq was established. Many Kurds left those countries and went to Uppsala.
- 1975 Huddinge becomes the first municipality offering Kurdish as a primary language.[3]
- 1976-1980 Kurds lest different parts of Kurdistan for Sweden due of the military coup in Turkey, the mass killings in the Maraş Massacre, the war against Saddam Hussein in Iraqi Kurdistan, the revolt against the Shah in Iran, and the ill-treatment of the Kurdish population in Syria by the Baath-regime .
- 1984 The education of Kurdish teachers in Stockholm begins.[4]
- 1981-1985 During the military junta in Turkey, the Kurdish opposition fled to Syria and Iraq. The war between Iran-Iraq and the subjugation of Kurds in both of the countries intensified.
- 1986-1990 The Turkish regime's mistreatment of the Kurdish population fuels immigration to Sweden.[5]
- 1991-1995 The crises in Kuwait due to Iraqi invasion, the war in south Kurdistan, and mass exodus from north Kurdistan into Iran.
Issues
Honour killings are also prevalent among the Kurdish diaspora in the West [6] In Sweden the 26-year-old Kurdish woman Fadime Şahindal was killed by her father in 2002.[7] Pela Atroshi was a Kurdish girl who was shot by her uncle in a brutal honour killing in Sweden.[8]
Notable Kurds in Sweden
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