Turkish Verbs
There are no irregular verbs, and one single conjugation is used for all verbs. Turkish Verbs are also vowel harmonised.
All verbs belong to one of two groups determined by their infinitive forms, those ending in -mak - (The A-UnDotted Vowel Group), and those ending in -mek - (The E-Dotted Vowel Group.)
The suffixes for all -mak verbs have only A-UnDotted Back Vowels - bakmak - to look - becomes - bakacak - he will look.
However only E-Dotted Front Vowels will be found in the suffixes of -mek verbs - gelmek - to come - becomes - gelecek - He will come.
This means there is more than one form for the tense sign suffix and in this case the future suffix may be -acak or -ecek to follow Vowel Harmony Rules.
Translation of the speech..
People of Turkey.. To this development which keeps flowing on by every ten years, I sincerley wish greater honour, happiness, pride and prosperity in this important celebration.. Happy is the man that can call himself a Turk!
- Mustapha Kemal ******
- From his 10th year Celebration Speech to the Turkish Language Association (TDK).