Meanings
- uncountableThe act or process of Kurdifying.
This had resulted in the Kurdification of the region's Turkish population.
2006, Soner Cagaptay, Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey: Who is a Turk?, Routledge, →ISBN2 more examples
they could easily observe and experience such Kurdification of some gecekondu zones in the inner areas of Izmir.
2011, Cenk Saraçoglu, Kurds of Modern Turkey: Migration, Neoliberalism and Exclusion in Turkish Society, Tauris Academic StudiesCombining the theory of the secondary Kurdification of originally Turkish tribes with the theory that Alevism is a tradition intrinsically linked with Turkish culture makes it seem obvious that those Alevis who speak Kurdish or claim Kurdish ethnicity have to be "original" Turks, who got over time Kurdified.
2013, Markus Dressler, Writing Religion: The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 137
Origin
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