Sweden
Kurds in Sweden: a history
Kurdish political exiles have come since the 1970s. Stockholm became a centre of the Kurmanji publishing revival, with Mehmed Uzun, the Kurdish Library and Kurdish publishers. Mother-tongue teaching gave Kurdish its first state-funded schoolbooks. Kurdish questions arose in the 2022 to 2024 NATO accession talks.
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85,000 to 100,000
institute estimate (range), 2016
Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish diaspora (Dec 2016 table of ranges) Secondary source
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about 150,000 Kurdish speakers
community estimate, 2022
Kurdo Baksi quoted by Sveriges Radio Secondary source