"sana tapıyorum" is correct

There is another alternative Bod. You can add Turkish characters to any keyboard layout. You can assign any key or key combination you want to type the Turkish characters.

http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_11_555

There is some information here but not a certain date though it mentions 19. century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul
Also have a look on this discussion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:%C4%B0stanbul

Somebody had written a book on this issue but there it says the issue is unclear. Obviously among Turks the name was used long before it was officially announced.
http://www.pandora.com.tr/urun.asp?id=90509

belli olmuyor:
1. it depends
2. it changes from time to time

In its field (Turkish as a foreign language) this website is currently the most visited website. Among all websites its rank is currently around 190.000 but it's rising fast and might get into the first 100.000 in a few months.
Of course there is still a long way to go and the contents, functionality and design can be improved but like many others have done so far I would like to take this opportunity to thank to Fatih (admin), our administrator and owner of this website, for his effords.

http://www.alexa.com/browse/general/?&Mode=general&CategoryID=559196&Start=1&SortBy=Popularity&Recursive=Letter

Hello Lında,
probably you have seen them already but just to let others know I would like to mention that we have already some sound files that our admin had put there:
http://www.turkishclass.com/pronounciation.php

Yes I agree with you that it will be a good idea to improve the sound content even more.

The number 273 is in reference to another list we have which is a frequency list of all Turkish words and we have around 24.000 of them.

The list goes like this:

1. bir
2. bu
3. ve
4. olmak
5. de
6. da
7. kendi
8. için
9. ne
10. o
...
273. Türk

What does it mean. It means that the most common word in Turkish is "bir", the second most common word that Turks use is "bu", at number three we have "ve" and so on. This is continues to 24150 but we are still working on the list so it is not completely ready yet.

Long time ago I thought this is just a typical American style of handling things for those people who don't like reading books but still don't want to feel uncomfortable for not reading. For me it sounded just a little unatractive.

But nowadays I changed my mind. I think books on a CD can be useful for learning Turkish. Especially after reading some comments by foreigners I realised that there is a bigger difficulty to get used to the sound of Turkish language than I imagined.

So, yes I agree with you on this issue. Hopefully we will make a complete list of printed learing materials for Turkish including those with a CD.

Also I hope we can add more content as sound files to this very website.

This is a good topic. When reading these lines I realised that there isn't enough information on this website about Turkish history. Maybe a more respecful place in the forum could also be considered.

Some unlucky messages have been removed by another moderator and recently by me. Thank you for your patience.