Quoting Chris123:

Please could you translate this from English to Turkish? Many thanks in advance.

Askim - the reason I sometimes get angry with you is because when I go on the internet I find that there are thousands of girls who get the same sms messages from boys like you who work in resorts and return to Istanbul in winter and all their sms messages are the same too! I tell you at the start that I am no fool, but here I am - still loving you. How can I know that you are different from all these other turkish men?

Quoting Nur:

Benim için çok anlamlısın öyle ki senin bendeki yerin bu satırları yazmama sebep oluyor. Kabul edilemeyecek bir şeydi belki yaptığım ama sen de biliyorsun ki her insan hata yapar ve senden bir kereliğine olsun beni affetmeni diliyorum. Kalbindeki yerimi yitirdiysem, beni affetmeni bekleyemem. Ama tekrar düşÃ¼nmen için kendine fırsat vermeni istiyorum. Yine eski günlerdeki gibi olalım sevgilim. Seni çok seviyorum. Sağa dönüyorum olmuyor? Sola dönüyorum olmuyor... Yok nafile uyku tutmuyor... Çünkü aklım sende ve o gunku kavgamızda... Bana kırgın olma istiyorum sevdiğim... Bu nedenle tüm kalbimle özür diliyorum! Bak uyku tutmuyor, haydi barışalım da güzel rüyalar görelim? Seni seviyorum!

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I. The 'zero' conditional, where the tense in both parts of the sentence is the simple present:

'IF' CLAUSE: If + simple present: If you heat ice... If it rains...

MAIN CLAUSE: simple present: ...it melts. ...you get wet

In these sentences, the time is now or always and the situation is real and possible. They are often used to refer to general truths.

Again simple present + sinple present is the one which best suits:
If you heat ice, it melts.
Buzu ısıtırsan, erir.

Here, -ır in ısıtırsan and -ir in 'erir' are simple present tense suffixes. -sa in 'ısıtırsan' means 'if' (comes from ise) -n is personal suffix for 'you'.

If it rains, you get wet
Yağmur yağarsa, ıslanırsın.

Here, -ar in yağarsa, -ır in 'ıslanırsın' are simple present tense suffixes. -sa in 'yağarsa' means if (comes from ise) -sın is personal suffix for 'you'.

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II. The Type 1 conditional, where the tense in the 'if clause is the simple present, and the tense in the main clause is the simple future

'IF' CLAUSE: If + simple present : If it rains... If you don't hurry...

MAIN CLAUSE: Simple future: ...you will get wet ...we will miss the train.

In these sentences, the time is the present or future and the situation is real. They refer to a possible condition and its probable result.

Here I would prefer the same tenses, simple present and future sense.

If you don't hurry, we will miss the train.
Acele etmezsen, treni kaçıracağız.

Here, -mez in etmezsen is the negative of simple present* (explained on bottom of page) and -acak in 'kaçıracağız' is the future tense suffix. -se in 'etmezsen' means 'if' and -n is personal suffix for 'you'. -ız in 'kaçıracağız' is personal suffix for 'we'.

If it rains, you will get wet.
Yağmur yağarsa ıslanacaksın.

Here, -ar in yağarsa is the simple present and -acak in 'ıslanacaksın' is the future tense suffix. -sa in 'ıslanacaksın' means 'if' and -sın is personal suffix for 'you'.

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III. The Type 2 conditional, where the tense in the 'if' clause is the simple past, and the tense in the main clause is the present conditional:

'IF' CLAUSE: If + simple past: If it rained... If you went to bed earlier...

MAIN CLAUSE: Present conditional: ...you would get wet ...you wouldn't be so tired.

In these sentences, the time is now or any time, and the situation is unreal. They are not based on fact, and they refer to an unlikely or hypothetical condition and its probable result.

To meet this structure for the if clause I would use I would use a tense which doesnt exist in the English. I will call it "Conditional Narrative Mood" (Dilek-şartın hikayesi).
Example:
yapsaydı (if he had done), gitseydi (if he had gone), olsaydı(if it had happened), bulsaydı(if he had found)...
This is purely fictional about a past event.

For the main clause I would also use a tense which doesnt exist in English, the "Narrative Mood of Future Tense"
yapacaktın, koşacaktın, gidecektin

If you went to bed earlier, you wouldn't be so tired.
Erken yatsaydın, yorgun olmayacaktın.

If it rained, you would get wet.
Yağmur yağsaydı, ıslanacaktın.

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IV. The Type 3 conditional, where the tense in the 'if' clause is the past perfect, and the tense in the main clause is the perfect conditional:


'IF' CLAUSE: If + past perfect: If it had rained... If you had worked harder...

MAIN CLAUSE: Perfect conditional: ...you would have got wet
...you would have passed the exam.

In these sentences, the time is past, and the situation is contrary to reality. The facts they are based on are the opposite of what is expressed, and they refer to an unreal past condition and its probable past result.

Here once again I would use the "Conditional Narrative Mood" (Dilek-şartın hikayesi) for if clause.

For the main clause I would have three options.
In the order of preference the my first choice would be the "Narrative Mood of Simple Present" (Geniş zamanın hikayesi), my second joice would be a version of "Inferential Past Tense" and my third joice would be the "Narrative Mood of Inferential Past Tense" (-mişli geçmiş zamanın hikayesi),

If it had rained, you would have got wet.
1. Yağmur yağsaydı, ıslanırdın.
2. Yağmur yağsaydı, ıslanmış olurdun.
3. Yağmur yağsaydı, ıslanmıştın.

If you had worked harder, you would have passed the exam.
1. Daha çok çalışsaydın, sınavı geçerdin.
2. Daha çok çalışsaydın, sınavı geçmiş olurdun.
3. Daha çok çalışsaydın, sınavı geçmiştin.

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V. A further type if 'if' sentence exists, where Type 2 and Type 3 are mixed. The tense in the 'if' clause is the past perfect, and the tense in the main clause is the present conditional:

'IF' CLAUSE: If + past perfect: If I had worked harder at school... If we had looked at the map...

MAIN CLAUSE: Present conditional: ...I would have a better job now. ...we wouldn't be lost.

In these sentences, the time is past in the 'if' clause, and present in the main clause. They refer to an unreal past condition and its probable result in the present.

For the if clause again I would use the "Conditional Narrative Mood" (Dilek-şartın hikayesi).

Here I would have used either the first or second option of the previous condition.
So either I would use,
1. "Narrative Mood of Simple Present" (Geniş zamanın hikayesi) or
2. "Inferential Past Tense" with "to be".

If I had worked harder at school, I would have a better job now.
1. Eğer okulda daha sıkı çalışsaydım, şimdi daha iyi bir işim olurdu.

If we had looked at the map, we wouldn't be lost.
2. Haritaya baksaydık, kaybolmuş olmazdık.

Quoting heybey:

If I had come, he would have left. = Gelseydim, o giderdi.

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SPEECH DELIVERED BY ATATÃœRK ON THE OCCASION OF THE TENTH ANNİVERSARY OF THE TURKISH REPUBLIC

The Turkish Nation

We have performed very big works in a short period of time. The biggest of such works is the Republic of Turkey based on the heroism and Turkish Culture. We owe the success to determinative cooperation between the Turkish nation and its esteemed Army. We can never consider those works sufficient. Because we have to perform bigger works. We shall rise our national culture above the level of contemporary civilization. Therefore, the time should conform with the speed and action concept of our century. We shall work harder. We shall realize bigger works in shorter time. We shall be succesful. The Turkish Nation hard working. The Turkish Nation is intelligent. Because, the Turkish Nation had overcome the difficulties by national unity. Because the torch in the hand of the Turkish Nation on the way of progress is positive sicience. Another characteristic of the Turkish Nation is to love the fine arts end to reach a high level in these fields. Therefore, it is our national ideal to develop by all means the good character, industriousness, natural intelligence, particularity about science and fine arts, and national unity concept. Today I definitelly state that, the whole world of civilization will once again recognize the greatness of the Turkish Nation, in a short period of time.

I never doubt that the great civil character of Turkism and its great civil ability will rise as a sun over high horizon of civilisation, through further development.

Happy is the man who calls himself a Turk.

Mustafa Kemal ATATÃœRK - 1933
http://tadevrimi.sitemynet.com/ingilizce.htm

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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938) is the founder and the first president of the Turkish Republic. His reforms can be concluded as "the rebirth of a nation". After the first world war, Turkey (Ottoman Empire) collapsed down. Nearly whole country was invaded.
He was able to make people believe and formed an assembly representing the nation. Then he formed an army out of nothing. He was genius as a soldier. His victory in the National Independence War was just a beginning to build a nation. His reforms made Turkey a modern country. In his time, Turkish women had the right to elect and to be elected years before some European countries.
Today Turkey is the only secular Muslim country. For all he has done for his nation, the assembly gave him the name "Ataturk" meaning the Father of Turks.
http://www.stanford.edu/~ofidaner/ataturk.html

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Emerging as a military hero at the Dardanelles in 1915, he became the charismatic leader of the Turkish national liberation struggle in 1919. He blazed across the world scene in the early 1920s as a triumphant commander who crushed the invaders of his country. Following a series of impressive victories against all odds, he led his nation to full independence. He put an end to the antiquated Ottoman dynasty whose tale had lasted more than six centuries - and created the Republic of Turkey in 1923, establishing a new government truly representative of the nation's will.
http://www.ataturk.com/index2.html

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Few countries have been as genuinely and permanently changed by a single ruler as Turkey was by Atatürk.
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