This paper examines the Turkish linguicidal policy and the strategies mobilized to eradicate the mother tongue of the Kurds, the second-largest non-Turkish population in Turkey. It shows how Turkish racist nationalism greatly influenced Turkish language policy and the linguicidal attempt against Kurdish. This policy was formed at the end of the Ottoman Empire and implemented at the beginning of the modern Turkish Republic. The linguicidal project unfolded in five main strategies, using a broad range of means, from the coercive force of the state to the dissemination of pejorative representations about the Kurdish language. Intentionally and methodically implemented, these strategies deprived Kurds of basic human rights, including education in their mother tongue, diminishing linguistic vitality, and significantly reducing the intergenerational transmission of the language.