yaka ´side, shore´. ´I think İstanbul´un hangi yakasında means ´on which side of the Bosphorus´ and the answer is Avrupa yakasında or Anadolu yakasında.

If you want a more specified answer try İstanbul´un neresinde yaşıyorsun?

-e yakın ´close to´. Kadiköy´e yakın mı yaşıyorsun?

(My Try.)

Maşallah iyi ki varsın.

Sana da teşekkür ederiz, elenagabriela.

That strikethrough function is very funny, you could easily make someone furious using it. =)

I hate arrogance and even dislike pride.

Quote: gokuyum

Know or know of? Which one is correct?

know of is an idiom: ´to be aware of the existence of someone or something´. Here:

                        http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/know+of

I think "its Turkish" is exactly ´-den haberi olmak´ while know is ´tanımak, bilmek´.

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Mr. John Guise is really an ideal language learner: curious, creative, enthusiastic and always ready to pay it forward.

My Try:

There are people who would get along so well if they met. But they do not know of each other.

(I think what confused you is tanışsalar. SA is attached straight to the verb stem which means this action is not real but only envisaged.)

Do you want me to tell Yılmaz that you wrote me this?

What is this dear thing today?

I was wondering how to translate düşünmüyor değilim. Maybe ´I am not saying that I don´t think´. Of course in the end it is affirmative but it also has a very sophisticated connotation I think.