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Kurds in the Netherlands

Kurds in the Netherlands may refer to people born in or residing in the Netherlands of Kurdish origin.

Immigration history
In the Netherlands, Kurdish immigrant workers from Turkey first arrived in the second half of the 1960s. Thousands of Kurdish refugees and political refugees fled from Turkey during the 1970s and onward, from Iraq and Iran during the 1980s and 1990s, and from Syria especially during the Syrian Civil War. ==Political activism==
Political activism
On 6 October 2014, the Kurds in the Netherlands "stormed the national parliament building in The Hague on Monday night in a protest against ISIS" offensive on the Syrian town of Ayn al-Arab, known in Kurdish as Kobani. On 13 May 2015, "Dutch police raided a secret meeting of members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the Netherlands". The office of Dutch prosecutors explained "that the Kurdish PKK recruits young Kurds in the Netherlands for its armed struggle against the Turkish army". The Kurdish minority within the state of Turkey "who want more autonomy for Turkish Kurdistan, but Turkey refuses to give it". == Notable people ==
Notable people
Naaz (singer), Dutch-Kurdish singer • Rewan Amin, professional footballer • Venus Faiq, Dutch writer, poet, translator, editor, and journalist • Olcay Gulsen, Dutch fashion designer • Fuad Hussein, Iraqi Kurdish politician ==See also==
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