List of German people of Kurdish descent

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This is a list of notable individuals who are of full or partial Kurdish origin who grew up and/or live in Germany. The list also includes people who identify as Zazas and Yazidis. The majority of German Kurds descend from Turkey; notable individuals who descend from elsewhere (namely Iraq, Iran, and Syria) are described as such in braces. Furthermore, those who are of partial Kurdish origin are listed alongside their dual identity.

Athletes[]

Combat sport

Football

Musicians[]

Rapper

Singer

DJs

Politicians[]

in German parties

in foreign parties or organisations

  • Haji Ahmadi (Iran; grew up in Iran and lives in exile in Germany)
  • Leyla İmret (grew up in Germany and lived in Turkey)
  • Feleknas Uca (Yazidi origin; grew up in Germany and lives in Turkey)

Actors[]

  •  [de] (Iraq)
  •  [de], actor (Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish origin)[3]

Directors[]

  • Züli Aladağ, film director, film producer, and screenwriter (Kurdish and Turkish origin)[4]
  • Ayşe Polat, script writer and film director (Kurdish and Turkish origin)[5]
  •  [de]

Writers[]

Miscellaneous[]

  • Hatun Sürücü, victim of a so-called "honor killing" by her youngest brother in 2005
  •  [de]
  •  [de], killed by neo-Nazi extremist in 1990
  •  [de], kidnapped by her five siblings and murdered by her brother, Osman, in a so-called "honor killing" in 2011 (Yezidi origin)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "الحارس حسن يلتحق بالتمرين والعمري جديد المحترفين". الأخبار (in Arabic). Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Noah Lyrics, Songs, and Albums". genius.com (in German). Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  3. ^ Witzeln über eigene Landsleute erlaubt, DerWesten, 2013, retrieved 29 March 2021, Nein, Özgür Cebe ist streng genommen „ein in Bielefeld geborener Bonner mit armenischen, türkischen und kurdischen Wurzeln“ („Drei Feinde in einem Körper, gibt’s immer viel zu diskutieren“),...
  4. ^ "Züli Aladag, film director". Deutsche Welle. 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2021. Whenever I'm asked about my nationality, I say, "I'm a German of Kurdish and Turkish descent."
  5. ^ Cox, Ayça Tunç (2012), "Hyphenated Identities: The Reception of Turkish German Cinema in the Turkish Daily Press", in Hake, Sabine; Mennel, Barbara (eds.), Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium: Sites, Sounds, and Screens, Berghahn Books, p. 169, ISBN 978-0857457691, The second-generation filmmaker Ayşe Polat's response to a question about how she describes her identity underscores the complexity of the issue, for she states that she is simultaneously German, Turkish and Kurdish.
  6. ^ Eddy, Melissa (2018), "By Taking a Bullet, a Muslim Woman Finds Her Calling", The New York Times, retrieved 29 March 2021, Born in Istanbul to a Turkish mother and a Kurdish father, she emigrated with her parents to what was then West Berlin in the late 1960s, part of the first large wave of Muslim immigrants who came to fill the blue-collar jobs needed to rebuild the German economy after World War II. Ms. Ates was 6 when she and her four siblings moved into a one-room apartment with their parents.
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