You are different.

You are something else.

Mercedes Sosa, Alfonsina y el mar

A good chance to learn a usual type of Turkish relative clauses:

en sev|diğ|im yemek ´the food which I like the most´

en sev|diğ|in yemek ´the food which you like the most´

en sev|diğ|i yemek ´the food which she likes the most´

en sev|diğ|imiz yemek ´the food which we like the most´

en sev|diğ|iniz yemek ´the food which you (pl.) like the most´

en sev|dik|leri yemek ´the food which they like the most´

If the person was added it would take the genitive form: Ayşe´nin en sevdiği yemek.

This pattern is used when the relative pronoun of the English sentence is the object of the clause: which (O) I (subject) like (predicative).

Of course a better way to translate it would be ´my favourite...´.

Thank you for your attention.

(Yaprak sarmasını seviyorum.)

It is funny how all of us can load the word jealousy with any meanings we want.

I smell smoke when a clearly negative word is used like it is positive. This is the way people try to justify their ignoring other people´s rights. We are chatting here innocently but passion murders are in the other end of this continuum.

Jealousy is poison. It means two people suffering.

Yes, I even checked it now. It is not allowed in F to give a female name to a male and vice versa.

That´s why your unisex names are frankly speaking so komik.

This paragraph of law sounds old-fashioned, though. If a person moves into the country and his name doesn´t ring any bell in Finnish ears we cannot tell him to go back and change his name. And person identity code reveals the gender anyway to whom it may concern.

It sounds right but if I had to choose I would say it is wrong.

You boys could argue in English. It would be good practice for you.

http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._Petro_%28Rusya%29

http://vedat.akcayoz.net/yazilarim/tekilkonular/delipetronunvasiyeti.html

Rusya’nın Deli Petro´su

In every language the epithet of the Russian czar Peter I is “Great”. Peter the Great, who reigned forty two years at the turn of 18^th century. His most remarkable colleague in the Ottoman Empire of those days was Ahmed III (the tulip Sultan, remember?).

In Turkish, though, Peter I is called Deli Petro.

Peter the Great had a great vision. He wanted to open his country to both Baltic Sea and Black Sea. There were two obstacles: Sweden in the North and Ottoman Empire in the south. He established St. Petersburg on an impossible swamp at the head of the Gulf of Finland. He had a special interest for naval forces. He travelled in Western Europe in order to gather allies for the crucial fight against Ottoman Empire. During his 18-month trip he gained expertese in seamanship and sea battles. The czar returned to Russia full of enthusiasm, wanting to modernise his backward empire.

Russia and the Ottomans were in a series of wars during four centuries. The Pruth River Campaign in 1711 was a success for Turks but while Sultan Ahmet III was busy with other issues he didn’t take the chance of marching towards Moscow. Anyway, a fragile peace between the two countries lasted for 25 years.

In Europe, “Russia card” is often brought to the table in order to create enemy images. A great example of Russophobic texts is the so called will of Peter the Great which describes how the czar advices his followers to content themselves with nothing less than ruling the whole world. The Turkish article which I read also takes Peter’s will  -  probably a forgery  -  very seriously. Russia wants Istanbul, the author claims:

Şüphesiz ki İstanbul’a sahip olan Şah, dünyada ilahi şah olacaktır. Without doubt, the king who controls Istanbul will be the heavenly king on Earth.

A crazy emperor indeed, we say. But as a matter of fact the reason Peter I was called Deli by Turks was not his megalomany. Actually the opposite: those who saw him studying ship construction were amazed because the czar of all Russia accepted to work in such humble and unimportant positions on the vessels. 

Flowers of the Tulip Era.

Ok, combinations with bilmek, durmak, vermek...

...but yazmak?

Does it come from here:

                           9. nsz İnsanın geleceğini belirlemek
                           "Yazan böyle yazmış." (GTS) ?