There were also many Kurds among the Kurdish diaspora and in
Red Kurdistan.
Russia According to the
2010 Russian Census, 63,818 Kurds live in Russia. Russia has maintained warm relations with the Kurds for a long time, During the early 19th century, the main goal of the Russian Empire was to ensure the neutrality of the Kurds, in the wars against Persia and the Ottoman Empire. In the beginning of the 19th century, Kurds settled in Transcaucasia, at a time when Transcaucasia was incorporated into the Russian Empire. In the 20th century, Kurds were persecuted and exterminated by the Turks and Persians, a situation that led Kurds to move to Russia.
Lebanon The existence of a community of at least 125,000 Kurds Kurds in
Lebanon go back far as the twelfth century A.D. when the
Ayyubids arrived there. Over the next few centuries, several other Kurdish families were sent to Lebanon by a number of powers to maintain rule in those regions, others moved as a result of poverty and violence in Kurdistan. These Kurdish groups settled in and ruled many areas of Lebanon for a long period of time. Kurds of Lebanon settled in Lebanon because of Lebanon's pluralistic society.
European Union ,
Vienna, Austria, 10 October 2014 at Schuman,
Brussels, 25 October 2017 in Norway, 12 May 2016 The Kurdish diaspora in the
European Union is most significant in Germany, France, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands. Kurds from Turkey went to Germany and France during the 1960s as immigrant workers. Thousands of Kurdish refugees and political refugees fled from Turkey to Sweden during the 1970s and onward, and from Iraq during the 1980s and 1990s. In France, the
Iranian Kurds make up the majority of the community. However, thousands of
Iraqi Kurds also arrived in the mid-1990s. More recently,
Syrian Kurds have been entering France illegally In the
United Kingdom, Kurds first began to immigrate between 1974 and 1975 when the rebellion of Iraqi Kurds against the Iraqi government was repressed. The Iraqi government began to destroy Kurdish villages and forced many Kurds to move to barren land in the south. These events resulted in many Kurds fleeing to the United Kingdom. Thus, the Iraqi Kurds make up a large part of the community. In Finland, most Kurds arrived in the 1990s as Iraqi refugees.
Kurds in Finland have no great attachment to the Iraqi state because of their position as a persecuted minority. Thus, they feel more accepted and comfortable in Finland, many wanting to get rid of their Iraqi citizenship. From 1994 to 1999, 43,759 Kurds entered Greece illegally and of the 9,797 who applied for asylum 524 were granted it.
North America In the United States, estimates of the Kurdish population vary from 15,000 to 20,000 to 58,000. During the 1991
Persian Gulf War, about 10,000 Iraqi refugees were admitted to the United States, most of which were Kurds and
Shiites who had assisted or were sympathisers of the U.S. –led war.
Nashville, Tennessee has the nation's largest population of Kurdish people, with an estimated 8,000–11,000. There are also Kurds in
Southern California,
Los Angeles,
San Diego, and
Dallas, Texas. In
Canada, the Kurdish community is 11,685 based on the Canadian Census 2011, among which the
Iraqi Kurds make up the largest group of Kurds in Canada, exceeding the numbers of Kurds from
Turkey,
Iran and
Syria. Kurdish immigration was largely the result of the
Iran–Iraq War, the
Gulf War and
Syrian Civil War. Thus, many Iraqi Kurds immigrated to Canada due to the constant wars and suppression of Kurds and Shiites by the Iraqi government.
Oceania In
Australia, Kurdish migrants first arrived in the second half of the 1960s, mainly from
Turkey. However, in the late 1970s families from
Syria and
Lebanon were also present in Australia.
Indonesia In
Indonesia, most Kurds are currently migrant refugees, both illegal and documented, as well as asylum seekers. Most of the refugees were placed in
Jakarta or in the
Puncak area, on the border between
Bogor and
Cianjur. Between 1999 and 2001, the number was estimated at around 4,800 including other Iraqi migrant refugees. ==Statistics by country==