talepleriyle

Talepleriyle is a Turkish compound form that translates roughly as “with their demands.” It is formed from the plural noun talepler (demands) combined with the third-person plural possessive suffix -leri to indicate “their,” and the instrumental suffix -yle to denote accompaniment or manner. The result is a single word meaning “with their demands” or, in context, “accompanied by their demands.”

Morphology and usage notes

The word is built by attaching the possessive suffix to the plural noun talepler to yield talepleri (their demands), and then adding the instrumental suffix -yle to produce talepleriyle. Turkish commonly uses suffix chaining to express complex relationships, and talepleriyle illustrates how possession and instrumental meaning can be combined into one unit. The interlocking suffixes follow standard Turkish vowel harmony, and the same meaning can also be rendered as talepleri ile with a space, though talepleriyle as a fused form is widely accepted in written Turkish.

Usage

Talepleriyle frequently appears in political, journalistic, or narrative contexts to describe actions taken by a group in conjunction with its demands. For example: Göstericiler talepleriyle belediye binası önünde toplandılar. (The demonstrators, with their demands, gathered in front of the city hall.) Yetkililere talepleriyle başvurdular. (They approached the authorities with their demands.) These sentences show how the phrase modifies verbs to convey accompaniment by the group’s demands.

See also

Turkish suffixes, including the possessive suffixes and the instrumental suffix -yle, and the variation talepleriyle versus talepleri ile in modern Turkish orthography.