Hi Trudy

Non native speakers can be really good English teachers her and get work permits. My Romanian friends has had a work permit here for 2 ro 3 years.

Hi

It depends what qualifications you have. e.g. if you have worked in a specialist department of an insurance company, you can get a job in an insurance company head office (Istanbul or Ankara).

I have friends who are doing all sorts of things, based on their experience abroad. Native speakers can also get jobs working as secretaries in international companies, as copy editors in English language newspapers etc. Those jobs are normally in the big cities though.

Bod

I keep saying it: for a native speaker in English:

GELECEK = next
ERTESİ = following.

These ARE different in English - a native speaker will know the difference and it is the same as the difference the Turks have been arguing about on Ertesi and Gelecek.

If you say "the following", you have to have previously referred to the event that it follows.

I agree with everyone who says Ertesi gün etc must say which day it follows. e.g. Last month I went to the doctor. The following day I felt better (i.e. the day after I went to the doctor). You would use ERTESİ here in Turkish.


Last week I was sick. Next week I have to play basketball. You would use GELECEK here.

All Deli Kızı's examples are good and useful.

Hi

Often a word comes into Turkish from Arabic.

The word for memory is hafıza, and it is related to this word hafız. So you can see a hafız is someone who committed the whole Koran to memory.

My pleasure

Hey guys: Let's agree a truce!

TDK defines ertesi as:

Bir günün, bir haftanın, bir ayın, bir yılın ardından gelen (gün, hafta, ay, mevsim, yıl):
"Ertesi gün başladı gün doğmadan yolculuk, / Soğuk bir mart sabahı... Buz tutuyor her soluk."- F. N. Çamlıbel.

and gelecek as:

2 . sıfat Zaman bakımından ileride olması, gerçekleşmesi beklenen, müstakbel:
"Kız, gelecek baharda yine geleceklerini müjdeledi."- O. C. Kaygılı.

i.e. English: gelecek = next, ertesi = following