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Kurds in Italy

Kurdish people in Italy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ131314290 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kurds in Italy (Italian: Curdi in Italia; Kurdish: Kurdên li Îtalyayê) are Kurds living in Italy. The number of Kurds is estimated between 25,000 and they come mainly from countries in the Middle East. Most Italian Kurds live in the capital Rome or in Milan.

In 2016, population of Kurds in Italy was estimated as 25,000 by Kurdish Institute of Paris (KIP). Today, KIP estimates the same number as 25,000.

History

Political activism

In October 2019, thousands of Italian Kurds staged a protest in Rome and Milan over Turkey's military operation in northeastern Syria.

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“Kurds in Italy” enters the record as kurdish people in Italy. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kurds, Italy and Kurdish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kurds, Italy and Kurdish.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q131314290. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kurds in Italy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.