Editing Kurds (section)

===Diaspora===
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[[File:Rojava solidarity demonstration Berlin 2019-10-10 22.jpg|thumb|Protest in Berlin, Germany against [[2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria|Turkey's military offensive into north-eastern Syria]] on 10 October 2019]]
[[File:Portrait of Hamdi Ulukaya.jpg|thumb|[[Hamdi Ulukaya]], Kurdish-American billionaire, founder and CEO of [[Chobani]]]]
According to a report by the [[Council of Europe]], approximately 1.3&nbsp;million Kurds live in [[Western Europe]]. The earliest immigrants were Kurds from Turkey, who settled in [[Germany]], [[Austria]], the [[Benelux]] countries, the United Kingdom, [[Switzerland]] and [[France]] during the 1960s. Successive periods of political and social turmoil in the region during the 1980s and 1990s brought new waves of Kurdish refugees, mostly from Iran and Iraq under Saddam Hussein, came to Europe.<ref name="coucileu"/>
In recent years, many Kurdish asylum seekers from both Iran and Iraq have settled in the United Kingdom (especially in the town of [[Dewsbury]] and in some northern areas of [[London]]), which has sometimes caused media controversy over their right to remain.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/news?articleid=2737475|title=MP: Failed asylum seekers must go back – Dewsbury Reporter|work=Dewsburyreporter.co.uk|access-date=2 December 2011}}</ref>
There have been tensions between Kurds and the established Muslim community in Dewsbury,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/news/39I-will-not-be-muzzled39.2955186.jp|title='I will not be muzzled' – Malik|work=Dewsburyreporter.co.uk|access-date=2 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102035344/http://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/news/39I-will-not-be-muzzled39.2955186.jp|archive-date=2 January 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/guide/seat-profiles/dewsbury|title=UK Polling Report Election Guide: Dewsbury|work=Ukpollingreport.co.uk|date=9 June 2012|access-date=2 March 2014|archive-date=10 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010075541/http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/guide/seat-profiles/dewsbury/|url-status=dead}}</ref> which is home to very traditional mosques such as the [[Markazi mosque|Markazi]]. Since the beginning of the turmoil in Syria many of the [[refugees of the Syrian Civil War]] are [[Syrian Kurds]] and as a result many of the current Syrian asylum seekers in Germany are of Kurdish descent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ekurd.net/syrian-kurdish-migrants-in-serbia-2015-08-29|title=Hundreds of Syrian Kurdish migrants seek shelter in Serbia|work=Kurd Net – Ekurd.net Daily News|access-date=18 September 2015|date=29 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ekurd.net/kurdish-refugees-fantastic-dreams-2015-08-31|title=For Iraqi, Syrian Kurdish refugees, fantastic dreams and silent deaths|work=Kurd Net – Ekurd.net Daily News|access-date=18 September 2015|date=31 August 2015}}</ref>

There was substantial immigration of ethnic Kurds in Canada and the United States, who are mainly political refugees and immigrants seeking economic opportunity. According to a [[2011 Canadian Census|2011 Statistics Canada]] household survey, there were 11,685 people of Kurdish ethnic background living in Canada,<ref name="StatCan-household">{{cite web|title=2011 National Household Survey: Data tables|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/dp-pd/dt-td/Rp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=0&PID=105396&PRID=0&PTYPE=105277&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2013&THEME=95&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF|work=StatCan.GC.ca|publisher=Statistics Canada|access-date=19 January 2013}}</ref> and according to the 2011 Census, 10,325 Canadians spoke Kurdish languages.<ref name="StatCan-lang">{{cite web|title=Detailed Mother Tongue, 2011 Census of Canada|work=StatCan.GC.ca|publisher=Statistics Canada|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/tbt-tt/Rp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=103251&PRID=0&PTYPE=101955&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2011&THEME=90&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=|access-date=13 April 2013|date=24 October 2012}}</ref> In the United States, Kurdish immigrants started to settle in large numbers in [[History of the Kurds in Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] in 1976,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wnpt.org/mediaupdate/2008/05/19/npt-visits-our-next-door-neighbors-in-little-kurdistan-usa/|title=NPT Visits Our Next Door Neighbors in Little Kurdistan, USA|publisher=Nashville Public Television|date=19 May 2008|access-date=13 April 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130705180756/http://www.wnpt.org/mediaupdate/2008/05/19/npt-visits-our-next-door-neighbors-in-little-kurdistan-usa/|archive-date=5 July 2013}}</ref> which is now home to the largest Kurdish community in the United States and is nicknamed ''Little Kurdistan''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2013/feb/23/nashvilles-new-nick-name-little-kurdistan/|title=Nashville's new nickname: 'Little Kurdistan'|newspaper=The Washington Times|date=23 February 2013|access-date=13 April 2013}}</ref> Kurdish population in Nashville is estimated to be around 11,000.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://traveltips.usatoday.com/interesting-things-nashville-tennessee-102054.html|title=Interesting Things About Nashville, Tennessee|newspaper=USA Today|access-date=13 April 2013|archive-date=16 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816031318/http://traveltips.usatoday.com/interesting-things-nashville-tennessee-102054.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The total number of ethnic Kurds residing in the United States is estimated by the [[US Census Bureau]] to be 20,591.<ref name="USCensus"/> Other sources claim that there are 20,000 ethnic Kurds in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.institutkurde.org/en/kurdorama/|title=The Kurdish Diaspora|work=institutkurde.org|access-date=18 September 2015}}</ref>