My Try:

Did you go to your home? Is everything all right? Is it all over? Which one do you think is harder, loving or being loved? I liked Ana from the very beginning. I loved her but I couldn´t get her. Do you think this is so easy? It was just wrong place, wrong time, wrong people. If one of these was different...but it wasn´t. Maybe it was what was predetermined by the destiny, but still it was very painful.

Every Muslim should know Arabic. Not Turkish. Sorry.

The one who learns takes the initiative. Thinking too big of oneself is always an obstacle of development.

I agree with deli. He says he has been too patient with people and is suffering from it now.

1. Gel|me|m. ´I won´t go.´ -mA- is NEG

2. Gel|me|m lazım. ´I must go.´ -mA- is INF

Hope it helps.

The same suffix -mA- accidentally has two different functions in Turkish grammar.

1. It is the negative marker. (In aorist present tense 2nd and 3rd persons it takes the form -mAz-.) As you said .

2. It makes nouns from verbs, i.e. infinitives. As you also said .

Just believe in your own reasoning, nifrtity.

The syntactic position of the verb shows which of these functions in in question. You can also find them in the same word:

                      başar|ma|ma korkusu ´the fear of not succeeding/failing´

where başar|ma|ma = stem + NEG + INF.

My Try:

"Ferzan Özpetek: Nurgül, you are so beautiful!"

Chairman on the jury Ferzan Özpetek couldn´t stop praising Nurgül Yeşilçay, the jury member who has given a magic touch to the festival with her beauty and her chic clothes. When Yeşilçay was giving an interview to NTV Özpetek who unexpectedly entered the live broadcast said: "What a beautiful jury member, don´t you think? What a successfull actress we have! She is splendid in everything she does, just perfect. Nurgül, you are so beautiful. You are so sober-minded and disciplinary." Yeşilçay also quipped with Özpetek saying: "I gave him the whole list."

Thank you for these examples, tunci. Many new things for me at least.

It often happens that the complicated grammar points which you hate in the beginning in the end become the most interesting ones.

Another nice question example with optative here:

                     Ne yapsak da bu sıkıntıyı atlatsak? ´What could we do to get over the hump?´

Nothing like ´in order to´ is needed. Handy.

Doesn´t joker also have the meaning ´wildcard, all-rounder´?