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Kurds in Norway

Kurdish demonstration against ISIS in Norway, 12 May 2016
Total population
7,100 (2013 official estimate of Kurdish speakers)-25,000 (2016 Kurdish Institute of Paris estimate)
Regions with significant populations
Oslo
Languages
Norwegian, Kurdish
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Kurds in Norway are Kurds living in Norway. The number of Kurds is estimated between 7,100 and 25,000 and they come mainly from countries in the Middle East. Most Norwegian Kurds live in the capital Oslo. In 1993, population of Kurds in Norway was estimated as 2,000 by Kurdish Institute of Paris (KIP). In 2021, citing a report of the KIP, Rudaw estimates that between 25,000 and 30,000 Kurds reside in Norway.

Political representation

In the 2021 Norwegian parliamentary election, two Kurdish-Norwegians were elected being Seher Aydar of the Red Party and the other Mani Hussaini from the Labour Party.

See also

• Kurdish diaspora

References

1. "Minoritetsspråk i Norge En kartlegging av eksisterende datakilder og drøfting av ulike fremgangsmåter for statistikk om språk". Statistics of Norway. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
2. "Diaspora Kurde (2016)". Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
3. Rigoni, Isabelle (1998). "Les mobilisations des Kurdes en Europe". Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales (in French). 14 (3): 204. doi:10.3406/remi.1998.1654. ISSN 0765-0752. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
4. ^ Shakir, Leyla (14 September 2021). "Two Kurds win seats in Norwegian parliament". Rudaw. Retrieved 15 September 2021.

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