Kurdify

English Etymology From en Kurdish ify. Pronunciation en /ˈkɜːdɪfaɪ/ RP en /ˈkɝdɪfaɪ/ GA Verb To make Kurdish. en 2009 Amikam Nachmani Turkey: Facing a New Millennium: Coping with Intertwined Conflicts Oxford University Press 9780719063718 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.” en 2013 Joshua Castellino; Kathleen A. Cavanaugh Minority Rights in the Middle East OUP Oxford 9780191668883 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. en 2018 Ceren Lord Religious Politics in Turkey: From the Birth of the Republic to the AKP Cambridge University Press 9781108472005 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'