Kurdify

English

Etymology

From Kurdish +‎ -ify.

Verb

Kurdify (third-person singular simple present Kurdifies, present participle Kurdifying, simple past and past participle Kurdified)

1. to make Kurdish
   • 2009, Amikam Nachmani, Turkey: Facing a New Millennium: Coping with Intertwined Conflicts, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 191:

     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.”

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

     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.

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

     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'