President of the Melbourne Kurdish Foundation said police raids against Kurdish associations and individuals are a result of Turkish government pressuring authorities in Australia.

Tvana Noori says similar raids have been conducted in Europe and those now being carried out in Australia are due to Turkish political pressure.

'The Turkish government has lobbied European governments to ban Kurdish groups and they have lobbied the Australian government to put Kurds on the terrorist list' he said.

Noori said his group was not raided because it was aligned to the Kurds in northern Iraq.

'I have spoken to members of the Kurdish Association and he says they are very shocked at the raids,' he said.