Kurdify

present singular third person Kurdifies · participle present Kurdifying · participle past Kurdified · past Kurdified

1. To make Kurdish.

   In the general context of liberty, this subarticle addresses the widespread issue of smaller minorities being coerced to Arabize or Kurdify when seeking homes in particular provinces.

   2013, Joshua Castellino, Kathleen A. Cavanaugh, Minority Rights in the Middle East, OUP Oxford, →ISBN

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   The Greek Prime Minister, Costas Simitis, has already had to overcome charges of lack of patriotism, when he rejected the “so called super patriots” demand to “Kurdify Greek foreign policy.”

   2009, Amikam Nachmani, Turkey: Facing a New Millennium: Coping with Intertwined Conflicts, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 191

   The chief of staff of the military, Fevzi Çakmak, had warned in 1930 that the Kurds in Erzincan were 'using Alevism to Kurdify currently Turkish villages and spread the Kurdish language', and that 'many Alevi Turkish villages that are by custom Turkish are abandoning their mother tongue and speaking Kurdish owing to the mentality that Alevism denotes Kurdishness'

   2018, Ceren Lord, Religious Politics in Turkey: From the Birth of the Republic to the AKP, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 135