Kurdification
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Kurdification is a neologism, coined after "Arabization", used to describe a cultural change in which something ethnically non-Kurdish is made to become Kurdish, usually in polemic contexts of post-Saddam Iraq, in particular in relation to Assyrian Christians and Iraqi Turkmen.

See also

• Cultural assimilation
• Iraqi minorities
• Iraqi Kurdistan
• Kurdistan Regional Government

References

• "Overcrowding and Kurdification threaten Christians in northern Iraq" (AsiaNews, October 2007)
• A. Bazzaz, turkmen.nl "The Kurdification procedure was soon implemented by the Kurdish leadership after toppling Saddam down in April 2003"
• Park, Bill, The Kurds and post-Saddam political arrangements in Iraq The Adelphi Papers (2005), Taylor & Francis: "The Kurds, who are intent on the further ‘Kurdification’ of Kirkuk before any census is held"
• Park, Bill, Iraqi scenarios, The Adelphi Papers, Volume 45, Number 374, May 2005 , pp. 49-66
• PKK Iran - Strategic Comments, 2004 - informaworld.com "recent months Turkish intelligence has begun to report Turcoman frustration with Ankara’s failure to prevent the increasing ‘Kurdification’ of northern Iraq"