Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

Ankaralı’lar/Ankara’lılar ‘the people of Ankara’
If the proper name is a -(s)I compound (10.2) the apostrophe is placed after -(s)I or -lArI:
İçişleri Bakanlığı’ndan ‘from the Home Office’
İçişleri’ne ‘to the Home Office’ (shortened form)
Ticaret Odaları’nın ‘of the Chamber of Commerce’
(Note that the ‘n’ of the suffixes -(s)I(n) and -lArI(n) is placed after the apostrophe.)
Proper names are spelt as in their bare form, even in cases where the addition of a
suffix changes the pronunciation (2.1):
Ahmet’in [axmedín] ‘Ahmet’s’
Tarık’ın [t h a:rí:n] ‘Tarık’s’
SYLLABIFICATION AND DIVIDING A WORD AT THE END OF A
LINE
All syllables contain one vowel in Turkish. A vowel cannot be the first item in a syllable
unless it is at the beginning of a word, i.e. it always belongs to the same syllable as a
preceding consonant if there is one:
a~ta~ma~dım ‘I could not throw’
A syllable cannot begin with two consonants, except at the beginning of loan words:
at~tım ‘I threw’
park~tan ‘from the park’
Note that the silent consonant ‘ğ’ conforms to the conditions on consonants:
ba~ğı~ra~ma~ya~ca~ğım ‘I will not be able to shout’
At the end of a line, a word can be divided at any syllable boundary, irrespective of
whether the division breaks up a single semantic unit (such as a stem or a suffix):
park ‘park’ par~ka ‘to the park’
git- ‘go’ gi~di~le~me~ye~ce~ği~ne ‘instead of [one] not being able to go
[there]’
(Note that in the second example the verb root ‘git’, the passive suffix ‘il’ and the
converbial suffix ‘yeceğ’ are broken up.)