Merhaba!

It´s my first post on this forum, it would come much earlier but there were some troubles with registration. I owe you a small introduction then I´m Krzysiek from Poland. I´ll be turning 18 in May. I´ve been learning Turkish for one and a half month.

I was reading some Turkish press on the web to learn new vocabulary and get used to different sentence constructions. I encountered such a headline that I don´t fully understand:

I know ne = what, but neler? Whats?

Aziz Yıldırım´s lawyer said whats for "the statement".

I don´t get the sense... Help, please.

Merhaba Nice to see you here!

 My try:

What did Aziz Yıldırım´s lawyer say for/as claim?

Ne means what
Neler is when it´s about many things, for example "Bugün neler yaptınız?" which means "What kind of things did you do today?"

 

Hmm.. but it´s not a question, because there was dot at the end and no "mi".

Well, well  
If you put "what" to a sentence, it will automatically be a question, right?

And [mi/mı, mü/mu] are for questions whose answer is either yes or no.  

Sorry, you´re right. I´m still a beginner

 No, in English what does not always mean a question:

What did Aziz Yıldırım say about the claims?

This is a full sentence, and is a question, as is noted by the question mark at the end.

what Aziz Yıldırım said about the claims

This is not a question, it is not a full sentence, and is a clause meaning the actual statement he made, or the things that he said.

Following up on my previous post,

To say "What did Aziz Yıldırım´s lawyer say about the claims?" in Turkish it would be:

Aziz Yıldırım´ın avukatı ´iddia´ için neler söyledi?

To say "What Aziz Yıldırım´s lawyer said about the claims"

Aziz Yıldırım´ın avukatının ´iddia´ için söylediğini

Ok, I understand. So my sentence is a sentence I wonder one more thing, why is actually the word "iddia" written in quotation marks? What may be the purpose of such notation?

Because that iddia (claim) was against him and something special for him. The media probably wrote it in quotation marks to get attention about the claim.