Some of the Finnish Kurds originate from Turkey and Iran, but most of them have come from Kurdistan region of Iraq, where they started arriving from in the 1990s as UNHCR quota refugees.
[4] According to the chairman of Finnish-Kurdish friendship association several dozens of Finnish Kurds had left to Syria and Iraq in order to fight against ISIL.
Kurmanji has more speakers worldwide, but Sorani is the most spoken Kurdish dialect in Finland.
There are several different Kurdish organizations in Finland, many of which have direct or indirect connections to political parties in Iraqi Kurdistan.
[8] In October 2019, thousands of Finnish Kurds staged a protest in Helsinki over Turkey's military operation in Syria.