Kurdification

English

Etymology

From Kurdish +‎ -ification.

Noun

Kurdification (uncountable)

1. The act or process of Kurdifying.
   • 2006, Soner Cagaptay, Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey: Who is a Turk?, Routledge, →ISBN:

     This had resulted in the Kurdification of the region's Turkish population.

   • 2011, Cenk Saraçoglu, Kurds of Modern Turkey: Migration, Neoliberalism and Exclusion in Turkish Society, Tauris Academic Studies:

     they could easily observe and experience such Kurdification of some gecekondu zones in the inner areas of Izmir.

   • 2013, Markus Dressler, Writing Religion: The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 137:

     Combining 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.