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Apostrophe or Not?
1.       Abla
3648 posts
 06 Jan 2013 Sun 10:35 pm

İstanbul + lu

2.       MilesTraveller
73 posts
 06 Jan 2013 Sun 11:05 pm

I think you don´t put an apostrophe here. That´s what I remember from Turkish class in school

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3.       tunci
7149 posts
 06 Jan 2013 Sun 11:11 pm

 

No Apostrophe.

 

Memleket veya köken bildiren yapım eki -lı birleşik yazılır. Örnek: İstanbullu, Amerikalı, Türkiyeli. Yabancı yer isimlerinde -lı eki kesme işareti ile ayrılır ancak yabancı ismin Türkçe kullanımı yerleştiyse ayrılmaz. Örnek:New York´lu (orijinal yazım); Kaliforniyalı, Amerikalı, Londralı (Türkçeleşmiş yazım).

* Only with in original spelling of Foreign place names , we can put apostrophe.

New York´lu

 

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Edited (1/6/2013) by tunci
Edited (1/6/2013) by tunci

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4.       harp00n
3993 posts
 06 Jan 2013 Sun 11:12 pm

 

Quoting Abla

İstanbul + lu

 

You dont need an apostrophe. Its compound.

İstanbullu, Bursalı, Adanalı

For more information;

http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedi:T%C3%BCrk%C3%A7ede_s%C4%B1k_yap%C4%B1lan_hatalar

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5.       Abla
3648 posts
 07 Jan 2013 Mon 11:11 am

Thanks X 3.

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