Kurds in Sweden - Chronological Kurdish Arrivals To Sweden

Chronological Kurdish Arrivals To Sweden

• 1967-1970 Two Kurdish students from south Kurdistan were expelled and fled to Sweden where they continued their studies.
• 1971-1975 A military coup in Turkey and the peace agreement in Iraq was established. Many Kurds left those countries and went to Uppsala.
• 1975 Huddinge becomes the first municipality offering Kurdish as a primary language.
• 1976-1980 Kurds lest different parts of Kurdistan for Sweden due of the military coup in Turkey, the catastrophic mass killings of Kurds in the Marash province of Turkey, the war against Saddam Hussein in south Kurdistan, the revolt against the shah in Iran, and the ill-treatment of the Kurdish population in Syria by the Baath-regime .
• 1984 The education of Kurdish teachers in Stockholm begins.
• 1981-1985 During the military junta in Turkey, the Kurdish opposition fled to Syria and Iraq. The war between Iran-Iraq and the subjugation of Kurds in both of the countries intensified.
• 1986-1990 The Turkish regime's mistreatment of the Kurdish population fuels immigration to Sweden.
• 1991-1995 The crises in Kuwait due to Iraqi invasion, the war in south Kurdistan, and mass exodus from north Kurdistan into Iran.
• 1996-now Continuing immigration of Kurds.