Editing Population transfer (section)

===Middle East===
* During the [[Kurdish rebellions]] in Turkey from 1920 and until 1937, hundreds of thousands of [[Kurdish refugees]] were forced to relocate.
* After the creation of the State of Israel and the [[1948 Palestine war|Israel Independence War]], a strong wave of [[anti-Semitism]] in the [[Arab countries]] forced many [[Jews]] to [[Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries|flee]] to Europe, the Americas and Israel. The number estimated is between 850,000 and 1,000,000 people. Those who arrived to Israel were put in [[refugee camps]] until the state had helped them to recover.<ref>"[http://www.jimena.org/about-jimena/mission-statement-and-organizational-history/ Jews (JIMENA)|JIMENA's Mission and History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025002533/http://www.jimena.org/about-jimena/mission-statement-and-organizational-history/ |date=2014-10-25 }}". JIMENA. Retrieved 2 June 2015.</ref><ref>[http://www.jimena.org/ Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130307045701/http://www.jimena.org/ |date=2013-03-07 }} (JIMENA)</ref>
* Up to 3,000,000 people, mainly Kurds, [[Kurdish villages depopulated by Turkey|have been displaced]] in the [[Kurdish–Turkish conflict]],<ref name="displaced">{{cite web |url=http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/JCS/bin/get.cgi?directory=FALL98/articles/&filename=Gunter.htm |title=Conflict Studies Journal at the University of New Brunswick |publisher=Lib.unb.ca |access-date=2010-08-29 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013181211/http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/JCS/bin/get.cgi?directory=FALL98%2Farticles%2F&filename=Gunter.htm |archive-date=2011-10-13 }}</ref> an estimated 1,000,000 of which were still internally displaced as of 2009.<ref>{{cite web |author=Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) – Norwegian Refugee Council |url=http://www.internal-displacement.org/8025708F004CE90B/(httpCountrySummaries)/66D21F80E3A69E41C125732200255E35?OpenDocument&count=10000 |title=Need for continued improvement in response to protracted displacement |publisher=Internal-displacement.org |access-date=2011-04-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131234512/http://www.internal-displacement.org/8025708F004CE90B/%28httpCountrySummaries%29/66D21F80E3A69E41C125732200255E35?OpenDocument&count=10000 |archive-date=2011-01-31 }}</ref>
* For decades, [[Saddam Hussein]] forcibly [[Arabization|Arabized]] northern Iraq.<ref name=arabization>{{cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/iraq0804/4.htm|title=Claims in Conflict: Reversing Ethnic Cleansing in Northern Iraq: III. Background|website=www.hrw.org|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118103918/https://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/iraq0804/4.htm|archive-date=2015-11-18}}</ref> Sunni Arabs [[Kurdish villages destroyed during the Iraqi Arabization campaign|drove out]] at least 70,000 Kurds from western [[Mosul]] to replace them with Sunni Arabs.<ref>{{cite news |title=Strife in Mosul as Sunni Arabs Drive Out Kurds |url=https://ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2007/5/independentstate1378.htm |access-date=12 June 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=30 May 2007 |via=Ekurd Daily}}</ref> Now, only eastern Mosul is Kurdish.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080512055628/http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JD03Ak01.html The other Iraqi civil war], Asia Times</ref>
* During the [[Gulf War|First Gulf War]], a survey reported that 732,000 Yemeni immigrants [[Yemenis expelled from Gulf Countries|were forced to leave]] [[Gulf Countries]] to return to Yemen. Most of them had been in [[Saudi Arabia]].<ref>United Nation Publication, 2003. Levels and Trends of International Migration to Selected Countries. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs p. 37. Available at:{{cite web |url=https://unp.un.org/details.aspx?entry=E03006 |title=United Nations Publications |access-date=2015-03-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402171543/https://unp.un.org/details.aspx?entry=E03006 |archive-date=2015-04-02 }}</ref>
* After the First Gulf War, [[Kuwait]]i authorities [[Palestinian expulsion from Kuwait|expelled nearly 200,000 Palestinians]] from Kuwait.<ref name=ppp>{{cite journal |author=Steven J. Rosen |journal=Middle East Quarterly |title=Kuwait Expels Thousands of Palestinians |url=http://www.meforum.org/3391/kuwait-expels-palestinians |year=2012 |quote=From March to September 1991, about 200,000 Palestinians were expelled from the emirate in a systematic campaign of terror, violence, and economic pressure while another 200,000 who fled during the Iraqi occupation were denied return. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511182542/http://www.meforum.org/3391/kuwait-expels-palestinians |archive-date=2013-05-11 }}</ref> That was partly a response to the alignment of [[PLO]] leader [[Yasser Arafat]] with Saddam Hussein.
* In August 2005, [[Israel's unilateral disengagement plan|Israel forcibly transferred]] all 10,000 [[Israeli settlement|Israeli settlers]] from the [[Gaza Strip]] and the north of the [[West Bank]].<ref>[[UN Security Council Resolution 446|Resolution 446]], [[UN Security Council Resolution 465|Resolution 465]], Resolution 484, among others</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories |publisher=[[United Nations]] |date=December 17, 2003 |url=http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/97360ee7a29e68a085256df900723485/d6f5d7049734efff85256e1200677754 |access-date=2006-09-27 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070603050844/https://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/97360ee7a29e68a085256df900723485/d6f5d7049734efff85256e1200677754 |archive-date=3 June 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory |publisher=[[International Court of Justice]] |date=July 9, 2004 |url=http://domino.un.org/UNISPAl.NSF/85255e950050831085255e95004fa9c3/3740e39487a5428a85256ecc005e157a |access-date=2006-09-27 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070828174856/https://domino.un.org/UNISPAl.NSF/85255e950050831085255e95004fa9c3/3740e39487a5428a85256ecc005e157a |archive-date=August 28, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention: statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross |publisher=[[International Committee of the Red Cross]] |date=December 5, 2001 |url=http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList247/D86C9E662022D64E41256C6800366D55#2 |access-date=2006-09-27 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060928224952/http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList247/D86C9E662022D64E41256C6800366D55#2 |archive-date=September 28, 2006 }}</ref>
* About 6.5 million [[Syrian refugees]] moved within the country, and 4.3 million left for neighboring countries because of the [[Syrian Civil War]]. Many were displaced by the fighting, with forced expulsions taking place against both Sunni Arabs and Alawites.<ref>{{cite web |title=2015 UNHCR country operations profile – Syrian Arab Republic |url=http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e486a76.html |year=2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160210000431/http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e486a76.html |archive-date=2016-02-10 }}</ref>