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Kurdish Immigration to Turkey

Published on Feb 11, 2016

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Kurdish Immigration to Turkey

Grace Atchison
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Gulf War

  • Kurds persecuted
  • Between Iraq and U.S. coalition
  • 1.85 million Kurds fled to Turkey
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Push and Pull

Push: Persecution in Iraq Pull: Turkey is close
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Discrimination

  • Kurdish language was banned
  • could not speak of nationalism
  • arrested for portraying Kurdish culture
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Conditions at Camps

Little food, clothing, and high unemployment
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Impact

Iraq: decreased population
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Impact

Turkey: increase population, shortage of resources
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Kurds in Turkey

23% of the Turkish Population is Kurdish

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