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Kurds in United Kingdom: a history

Refugees came from Türkiye, Iraq and Iran from the 1980s. London’s Kurds live mainly in Haringey, Hackney and Newington Green. MED TV, a Kurdish channel in exile, held a UK licence from 1995 to 1999. In the 2021 census, Kurdish was the most common ethnic write-in in Wales.

02Figures

about 76,000 (73,510 in table TS022)

ethnic group write-in ‘Kurdish’, England and Wales, 2021

ONS Census 2021 Verified
70,000 to 90,000

institute estimate (range), 2016

Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish diaspora (Dec 2016 table of ranges) Secondary source

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