Yes it is probably only rhetorics but very tasteless at the same time because it somehow nullifies all the progress Turkey has done in the direction of democracy. The list of those countries which have banned these world-wide services is a depressive one just like catwoman mentioned.

Ok, it´s just that

- the logical object of vazgeçmek is you

- the verb is passivized > you become the subject

- still, there is the possessive suffix -im which indicates that the logical subject of vazgeçmek is me.

Quite a complicated way to come to the goal.

Thanks gokuyum.

Vazgeçilmezimsin.

It is understandable but is it well-formed?

In your opinion, what else could it turn into? There cannot be two finite verbs in a sentence can there? Not in any language I guess.

Why dative then...hmmm probably for some historical reasons which we cannot recall any more. I would say etmek takes dative in your sentence simple because çalışmak wants dative.

Only istemek and bilmek take the MAK infinitive:

                  çalışmak istiyor

                  susmak bilmez

Other verbs, when taking a verbal complement, treat it as they treat any noun (the infinitive is a noun, remember?). Thus,

çalışmak
1. to work.
2. /a/ to study.
3. /a/ to try or strive (to do something).
4. (for a machine) to operate, run, work, go. çalışıp çabalamak to try hard, do all one can.

according to www.turkishdictionary.net is marked with the additional information /a/. It means this verb combines with dative. The dative of an infinitive is usually formed from another infinitive, the MA infinitive > etme + y + e (INF + BUFFER + DAT) çalışıyor.

Another example:

sevmek /ı/
1. to love; to like.
2. to fondle, caress. Sevsinler! colloq. Now isn´t he/she something! (said sarcastically). Sev beni, seveyim seni. proverb You scratch my back and I´ll scratch yours.

takes the /ı/ case, i.e. the accusative. > yüzme + y + i (INF + BUFFER + ACC) seviyorum.

This is exactly what has happened earlier with borrowed Arabic nouns. The old formations just seem more acceptable because they are old and less transparent for modern speakers.

While producing masses of "X etmek" verbs all the agglutinative tools of Turkish have been left aside.

Uhh not my piece of cake.

etmek is the disease of Turkish.

Really cool sentences, thank you impulse. Like a game with verb queues and tenses. A good example of how lexical meanings are often conveyed with grammatical means in Turkish.

I remember one more structure for ´pretend´:

İşveren isteklerimi duymazlıktan geliyor. ´The employer pretends not to have heard my wishes.´

You can also see it as duymazdan gelmek.

I have a feeling the structure works with a limited set of verbs, i.e. duymak and görmek. Correct me if I am wrong.

Native speakers of any language tend to think any letter has the same sound always. That is because they do not need to recognize the differences. But lack of phonetic knowledge does not indicate that they would pronounce the sounds wrong.

I think voiceless alveolar fricative belongs to standard Turkish in the positions you described. I don´t know about dialectal differences, though. Someone else will help you I am sure.

I mean learning a new language is a process you start and it will last for a lifetime. The lessons on this site do not help you much with your oral skills but they are necessary to take because Turkish is a grammar-intensive language.