Sunnize

In this regard it must be noted that the PKK operations in Hatay have targeted the Sunni Turkmen that Turkey settled in the province after it was annexed in 1939 in order to Sunnize the region. The bulk of the population in 1939 was comprised of Alawite Arabs as is 10 to 11 percent of Syrian population.

[…] was really of the same category as the pirs and murshids of popular Sufism, regardless of Shia extrapolations from a more Sunnized epoch that in turn had elements in common with earlier forms of Shi'ism.

How can the diverse constituents of Iraq be brought together without returning to a Sunnized Baathist situation […]

The author may appears in the eyes of some Alevi spokesmen as the example ofa “sunnized Alevi”, as he defends the fulfilment of the five pillars of Islam. Pamukçu argues for an autonomy of the Zazaspeaking Alevi from the Kurds (1992).

Four other extremely popular Alawi shrines are not yet "sunnized" but have received the compulsory honor of a Sunni mosque nearby.