Just for fun I collected the following monster verbs from a text which was hitting off a pseudo cultivated style of speaking in the 1950´s. These were just in a few pages. Obviously you could create and endless list of verbs with the same techniques.

hakaret etmek ‘insult’

icap etmek ‘to be necessary’

icat etmek ‘invent’

ihanet etmek ‘betray’

inkar etmek ‘deny’

ispat etmek ‘prove’

israr etmek ‘insist’

istismar etmek ‘utilize’

işaret etmek ‘to point out’

itiraf etmek ‘admit’

izah etmek ‘explain’

kaydetmek ‘register’

kıraat etmek ‘read’

kifayet etmek ‘to suffice’

mücadele etmek ‘fight’

müsaade etmek ‘permit’

reddetmek ‘refuse’

tahlil etmek ‘analyse’

tahmil etmek ‘load’

takdir etmek ‘appreciate’

takip etmek ‘follow’

tatbik etmek ‘apply’

tayin etmek ‘determine’

tecrübe etmek ‘try’

teklif etmek ‘propose’

tekzip etmek ‘to call a liar’

telaffuz etmek ‘pronounce’

telif etmek ‘reconcile’

temas etmek ‘touch’

temsil etmek ‘represent’

tesir etmek ‘influence’

tezahür etmek ‘become visible’

zikretmet ‘mention’

I want to remind that Turkish is a language with rich local dialects and cognate languages plus superior means for word formation.

What do you call this? Richness of vocabulary? I call it corruption of language.

On a sentence level the function of -ki in this case is to change evimin karşısında from an adverbial of place (modifying the predicate) into an adjective attribute (modifying the following noun).

The exact translation may clear it to you:

                ´There is a flower shop in the road which is opposite to my house.´

Thanks to -ki the head of that structure is yol.

http://www.serenti.org/kiz-kulesi-tarihcesi-ve-efsaneleri/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24VEKG3TI-4

Kız Kulesinin Misafirleri

The best known legend of the Maiden’s Tower is an Istanbul version of the fairy tail about Sleeping Beauty. A sultan loved his little daughter dearly. Oracles saw in the stars that the princess will be bit by a poisonous snake on her 18^th birthday. As an attempt to save his daughter from this destiny, the sultan had a castle built on a small rock in the sea to keep the girl far away from snakes. But  -  auch!  -  an uninvited visitor sneaked to the rocky islet hidden a box of grapes and gave the princess a mighty sting.

In the reality Kız kulesi has had many functions since it has been standing there in the entrance of Bosphorus only 200 metres from the bank of Üsküdar  -  Its history dates back to the 5^th century B.C. even though it got its present shape as late as in 1832.

* It was used as a customs station in the Byzantion times. A long chain was adjusted between the tower and a fortress in the European side of Bosphorus.  The fee was worth one tenth of the cargo of the ship.

* During the Ottoman period artillery fire was shot in the Maiden’s Tower during feasts and celebrations.

* While being used as a lighthouse Kız kulesi burned into smoking ruins in 1721 after the lamp oil burst into flames.

* The Chief Harem Eunuch Morali Beşir Ağa who had fallen into disfavour was executed on the island in 1752.

* Infected patients were isolated on the island during the great plague epidemy which killed up to 30 000 people in İstanbul in the 1830’s.

* The island was a radar station of the navy until 1983.

* In 1995, the island was rented to a private company to be used as a tourist spot.

The Maiden’s Tower was always an excellent place to keep an eye on the Bosphorus:

Kulenin giriş kapısı Üsküdar tarafına bakmakta ve doğu tarafı hariç her üç tarafında da toplam yedi adet top mazgalı bulunmaktadır. Bu mazgallar Sarayburnu ve boğazı tarassut altına almak için, kuzey ve batıdaki altı tanesi duvarlara 90 derece, güneydeki bir tanesi ise daha eğik bir açı ile inşa edilmiştir. The entrance of the castle is facing Üsküdar and there is a  total of seven embrasures for cannons in every side except the east. In order to observe the strait and Sarayburnu, the northern and western embrasures have been built with a 90-degree angle against the walls while the southern one has a wider angle.

Thanks X 3.

(Keşke) beni anlasan.

Anlasan beni.

İstanbul + lu

My Try:

I am saying a human being is not an outcome of how long she has lived but what she has experienced and how. I am not wishing that you live until a certain age but that you experience the full beauty of life.

How do you begin a fairy tale and how do you end it in Turkish?

I know Bir varmış bir yokmuş... but I think I have seen another alternative also which I have forgotten.

In Arabic there is a long rhyme repeated in the beginning and in the end of a story  -  sending greetings to Prophet Muhammad at least  -  is there anything similar used in Turkish?

They are like real tongues in the state of rigor mortis. Just think about it, especially if the soup has cooled down a little.

(Your green soup doesn´t need any comments.)

In Egypt they call them bird´s tongues.

They are disgusting.