User:Kiel457/Kurdish Brazilian

The Kurdish Brazilians (Curdos no Brasil, Brezilya Kürtleri, الأكراد في البرازيل, ) refers to people in Brazil who have Kurdish ancestral background. The number of Kurds is around 150.

History
In the 16th century, the Portuguese brought at least 10 Kurds from Persia (present-day Iran), during the Portuguese colonization of the Americas. The massive wave of immigration started after 1978-79, when Kurds fled the Iranian Revolution. The massive immigration of Kurds to Brazil, started after the Turkey-PKK conflict in 1984, and notably the 1991 Gulf War in Iraq. After the beginning of an ongoing war in Syria, Syrian Kurds, mostly from Ayn al-Arab, migrated to Brazil. Some Kurds have returned to Iran, Iraq and Syria. After that, the Kurdish population decreased to 150. Most Kurds in Brazil work in the embassies of Iran, Iraq, and Turkey.

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