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| 150,000–240,000[1][2][3] | |
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| Turkish | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam,Shia Islam,Alevism andYazidism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Iranian peoples •Turks in France |
Kurds in France may refer to people born in or residing inFrance of full or partialKurds origin.
There is a large Kurdish community in France, with different estimates setting the number at around 150,000–240,000 people.[3] This makes the Kurdish community in France the second largest Kurdish community in theKurdish diaspora, afterKurds in Germany.
InFrance, Kurdish immigrant workers fromTurkey first arrived in the second half of the 1960s.[4] Thousands of politicalKurdish refugees fled from Turkey during the 1970s and onward, fromIraq andIran during the 1980s and 1990s, and fromSyria during theSyrian Civil War.[4]
In October 2014, Kurds in France and other European countries marched in protest at what they perceived asTurkish collaboration with theIslamic State of Iraq and the Levant during theSiege of Kobani.[5]
On 25 July 2015, Kurds marched in Paris to protestTurkish airstrikes in Iraqi Kurdistan onKurdistan Workers Party (PKK) positions.
On 12 October 2019, thousands of Kurds in France marched to protest the2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria.[6]
On 23 December 2022, Kurdish protests responding to themass shooting of Kurds in Paris turned into violent demonstrations. The indifferent attitude of the French police in providing security to the Kurdish minority paved the way for clashes between members of Kurdish community and French police.[7]
Category:French people of Kurdish descent
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