you can say,

Çok insan var- There are many people 

or

Çok kalabalık -  Very crowded

İngiltere´deki marketlerde plastik poşeti parayla alıyoruz.

Bu sabah benim mahallemdeki market sahibine bunu anlatmaya çalışıyordum.Bana "neden ? " diye sordu.

Sebebinin plastik poşet kullanımını azaltmak olduğunu anlatmak olduğunu Türkçe anlatmak epey güç oldu benim için. 

You can say the following sentence, she will understand,

Amaç, plastik poşet kullanımını azaltmak.

 ´´ Burada durabilir misiniz ? "   

Lütfen is not much used especially when asking driver to stop . 

You can also say,

Her yeni gün, Allah´tan bize bir lütuftur. 

Yoğun musunuz ? 

or

İşleriniz yoğun mu ?

or

İşleriniz çok mu ?

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-rağmen is properly used in the sentence because ,

The structure is  .............e/a  rağmen 

                      despite....................

500 yıllık iktidarI-n-a   rağmen............

Despite the 500 years of his[or its] rule [authority over area and its people].........

Despite the 500 years of its rule [I guess Ottoman Empire ?], It is seen that Turkish Language was not imposed [on people by Ottomans ]

500 yıllık iktidarına rağmen Turk dilinin dayatılmadığı görülür.

-MIŞ GİBİ

This structure, instead of  conveying  “hearsay”  denotation, it actually  refers a result of an action. It conveys “ probable definite past”

- Daha önce golf oynamış gibiydi.

It looked like [to me] he played golf  before.

* In the sentence above, I came to a conclusion from “they way he plays golf ” that “he must have played golf before. ”

- Buraya ilk kez gelmiş gibiydiler.

It looked like [to me] they came here first time.

From the way they acted /reacted , it looked to me that they didn’t come here before. 

November 10, Ataturk Memorial Day!

Turkey is commemorating Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the Founder of Republic of Turkey, who passed away 77 years ago. Ataturk died at 9:05 on November 10, 1938 — and every year, all of Turkey observes a moment of silence at 9:05 on that day to honor the man regarded as the greatest Turk.