The Foreign Minister of EU Catherine Ashton and the representative of the National Security Council of Iran Saeed Jalili met in Istanbul on Saturday.

That´s what I ment with linear flow of language. Maybe also sorting old and new information has to do with it.

What was really new for me in tunci´s reply is this:

You know, this is not what I used to combine to agglutinative languages. My professor always said "The Finnish word order is free but always meaningful."  -  He was a very short man and I have a feeling no one listened to him because of this but he understood about syntax.  -  And now we have here an agglutinative language which has a free word order but apparently for no reason.

Word order is like a person´s height. Some of us are tall, some of us are short but every one has a height. The same way the words in a sentence, whether they are well organized or they found their place accidentally, always have an order. I mean as soon as we open our mouth they come out  -  how?  -  one by one.

My Try:

Who is the famous footballer for whose sake a 48-hour cease-fire was announced in Nigeria where he went for the sake of a frienship match in 1967 and which was in civil war?

No difference in meaning, you say. The changes must be made for stylistic or esthetic reasons or something similar, maybe in spoken language just because of the linear flow of language: words just follow one another after they ripen in the speaker´s mind.

Maybe that´s why the inverted clauses sound to me somehow...beautiful.

Very important information, I can´t remember I ever saw it anywhere. Thank you, tunci.

Good, I´ll be waiting for you.

Listen to ^^^^ him.

Buna ihtiyaç olmayacak. Haziran ayında geleceğimi düşünüyorum. (place)´de/da* misin/mısın*?

* Notice vowel harmony here.

My Try, wait for corrections.

I find it very interesting that

1. every constituent in a Turkish sentence is grammatically marked which makes it possible to play with the word order and

2. still the word order is quite fixed (at least a learner had better follow certain patterns) even though it didn´t have to be.

How meaningful are the changes in word order? All I know until now is that the place in front of the predícate is ear-marked and usually the stressed constituent is placed there. But for instance changes like tunci described in the previous message, what is it that they bring to the meaning?

Let’s make this causative thing clear, shall we?

Causative is used when the subject makes someone else perform an action. The causative marking of the predicate changes the roles of the noun phrases so that AGENT becomes PATIENT. If the verb stem is intransitive (gelmek) this sentence element takes the position of a direct object. When definite it is marked with accusative ending:

Yavuz Sultan Selim, Mısır’dan dönerken El-Ezher’den ulemaları İstanbul’a getirdi.

Ali Kuşçu gibi ünlü Türk bilim adamlarını İstanbul’a getirtti.

If the verb stem is transitive (yapmak), there is an object already:

Yine padişah, huzurunda felsefi tartışmalar yaptırıyordu.

If the performer of the action is mentioned it takes the position of an indirect object and it is marked with dative:

Fatih ayrıca İtalyan ressam Gentile Bellini´ye kendi hususi resmi olmak üzere çeşitli portreler ve heykeller yaptırmıştır.

Fatih´in yanında bulunan İtalyan nedimesi ona Antik Yunanistan´daki düşünürlerin ve Romalı tarihçilerin eserlerini okutmuştu.

Is this all there is to it or did I simplify the case too much?

Sorry, tunci, I am on your way.