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Kurdification
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English
Etymology
From en Kurdish ification.
Noun
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The act or process of Kurdifying.
en 2006 Soner Cagaptay Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey: Who is a Turk? Routledge 9781134174478 This had resulted in the Kurdification of the region's Turkish population.
en 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.
en 2013 Markus Dressler Writing Religion: The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam Oxford University Press 9780199969401 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.