Use a plain apostrophe here.

kmr.orth.apostrophe · Warning · Spelling standard · Safe to fix automatically

Word processors turn ' into ’. Inside a word, such as before a suffix on a name, the plain apostrophe is the standard, and the curly one splits the word for searching.

Examples

Wrong	Right
HDP’ê	HDP'ê
Ew’ê hat.	Ew'ê hat.

Lessons

• Lesson 5: Writing and reading
• Lesson 23: The written standard and common errors

Related rules

• Kurmanji writes this vowel with a circumflex.
• A sentence starts with a capital letter.
• This letter looks right but comes from another alphabet.
• This word has a letter or cluster Kurmanji does not write.
• This is a Turkish letter, not part of the Hawar alphabet.