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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.

Academia and Medicine

Artists

Athletes

Deniz Naki (2012)
Mahmoud Dahoud (2018)

Musicians

Rappers

Xatar

Singers

Engin Nursani
Ferhat Tunç

DJs

Politicians

in German parties

Cansu Özdemir

in foreign parties or organisations

Cinema

Writers and Literature

The Kurdish writer Rohat Alakom, 2010
Seyran Ateş

Miscellaneous

See also

References

  1. ^ "الحارس حسن يلتحق بالتمرين والعمري جديد المحترفين". الأخبار (in Arabic). Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  2. "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."
  3. 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.
  4. 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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