[5] The Ottomans also sent loyal Kurdish families to modern-day Syria and Lebanon, where they got administrative roles.

[5] These Kurdish groups settled in and ruled many areas of Lebanon for a long period of time.

[6]: 27 The first modern wave of Kurdish immigration to Lebanon was in the period of 1925-1950 when thousands of Kurds fled violence and poverty in Turkey.

[7] The second wave of Kurds entered in the late 1950s and early 1960s, most of whom fled from political repression in Syria and Turkey.

[5] During the early 1990s, the Lebanese government destroyed many squatter quarters in Beirut, where many Kurds lived, leading to the emigration of nearly one quarter of Lebanon's Kurdish population.