It's a great suffix when using two verbs in the same tense...translated just as the other verb.

It's also convenient as in "gidip gitmiyeceğini bilmiyordum" - I didn't know if you were going or not.

Thanks to you all. I had tried to find the dictionary on the homepage but couldn't find it. I didn't know it was so simple. Tedkrar mersi.

My first guess when I saw "görev yapmak" was that it meant to go on strike. The context, however, doesn't support that guess; so I went to "strike" and found "grev", which made me feel good about my original guess. However, I cannot find "görev" in my dictionary. Yardım edebilir misiniz? Mersi.

And then, there are koç yumurta, which are often fried but never scrambled.

In France they use only one egg to make an omlette because in France "one egg is un Å“uf". Sorry, couldn't resist this little bi-lingual pun.

Scrambled eggs are scrambled before cooking and stirred during cooking. Omlettes are scrambled before cooking and left alone during cooking (often covered to make them fluffy).

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk "happened". It was part of his attempt to westernize the country.

My next-door neighbor had an unusual last name. It seems his ancestor from the time had taken the name "Eşsiz" because he wasn't married at the time. Well, he must have married and had children because the name has come down through the years.

Solved: I guess it means fox-hunter.

I'm surpised that no Türk or türkçe bilen responded.

I believe a more polite version would be "anlatabildim mi?", "was I able to make myself understood?". This wouldn't work unless you had just tried to explain something...not good if you're asking "do you understand this paragraph in the book?".

I came across a Turkish surname this morning, and while I understand all the components, I'm not sure of something. The name is Tilkicioğlu. I understand 'tilki' as fox, 'oğlu', and the general use of 'ci', as in 'eskici', 'kapicı'. But I don't understand what a 'tilkici' is. Is it a furrier? hunter? I even thought it might be an evolved corruption of 'tilkili' as 'sly'. Thanks, arkadaşlar.