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Azerbaijani is the language that is spoken in Azerbaijan. This language is very similar to Turkish. This is an Azerbaijani song with English subtitles. Performed by Dilek Ölçüm.

Bolu

Yedigöller is a very beautiful place in the city "Bolu" of Turkey, a national park. Especially in autumn, photographers visit this place to get amazing shots and enjoy the view.

In Turkish "yedi" means "seven", and "göl" means "lake". -ler is the suffix for plural nouns. So it means seven lakes. As this place consists of seven lakes, its name is Yedigöller. These lakes are called Sazlıgöl, İncegöl, Küçükgöl, Deringöl, Büyükgöl, Kurugöl and Seringöl. Read more >

The month Ramazan (or Ramadan/Ramadhan as Arabic transcryption in English) is one of the most important time periods in Islam world. In this month, Muslims fast.

To celebrate this holy time, you can say Hayırlı Ramazanlar, or Ramazanınız mübarek olsun.  Read more >

I would like to write some greetings in Turkish. I hope it helps Turkish learners.

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Özlem Tekin is a Turkish female rock singer and actress. He was born in California because her father was a prominent Turkologist at UC Berkeley. Then they moved to Turkey and she grew up in Ankara.

Şebnem Ferah and Ebru Bank formed the band called Volvox (now she is known as Ebru Eroğlu as she is married Cenk Eroğlu). Later, Özlem Tekin became a member of Volvox too. She played keyboards and she performed lead singer as well.

After Volvox disbanded, Özlem Tekin worked for her solo albums. She has 5 albums now. I think she has been always in "change" of her style. Her fans critisized her badly sometimes but she always did whatever she wants.

By the time, she played in some movies and tv serials too. I remember she had a very good performance in the movie Hokkabaz. She played a crazy bride role in it.

In 2005, he released her last album, 109876543210. It looks like a complicated name? Easy though... It is just Read more >

Some verbs changes by present continuous suffix -yor. Some examples:

a changes to ı
anlamak: anlıyor
kanamak: kanıyor
a changes to u
zorlamak: zorluyor
boyamak: boyuyor
e changes to i
dinlemek: dinliyor
demek: diyor
e changes to ü
özlemek: özlüyor

If you realized, the common point of these verbs are that the last letters of their roots are a and e. Now let's try to understand when and how it happens. Read more >

In English, we generally use the same word when we are talking the place: "here". In Turkish, it may change due to the usage or the duty of the word.

What is burası?

Actually bura and burası have same meanings. They mean "here". The word bura is the root of the word "here". We generally use burası instead of bura. This is the nominative. If the place is the subject of our sentence, then we use burası. Read more >

I guess one of the simplest rules in Turkish grammar is to make a noun plural. But still we need some information about the Major Vowel Harmony. Read more >

Sometimes I read and hear that some countries which are far from Turkey think that Turks speak another language than Turkish. Some people think that we speak Arabic. Actually, Turkish is very different from Arabic in the grammar structure. But from the history, there are many words that come from Arabic. Even though there are many words, that doesn't mean Turks can understand Arabic. To think this would be a Huge mistake.

In 1923, Turkey became a new country. Before that, the country was The Ottoman State. It had a language based on three languages: Turkish, Arabic and Persian. Before the alphabet revolution in November 1st 1928, Arabic letters were used. But we use the Latin alphabet since that time. So, if you use Latin letters too, you can read and write almost all Turkish letters too.

I said "almost", because there are a few different letters. They are; Read more >