Yangın battaniyesini kamp ocağının yanında tuttuk.

It breaks down like this:

• battaniye = blanket
• yangın battaniyesi = fire blanket
  Here, yangın battaniyesi is a noun compound, so the second noun takes the compound marker -si.
• battaniyesi = fire blanket
• battaniyesini = the fire blanket, as a specific direct object

That final -ni is the accusative ending, used for a specific/definite direct object.

So:

• yangın battaniyesi = a fire blanket / fire blanket
• yangın battaniyesini = the fire blanket

Because Turkish often forms noun compounds differently from English.

In English, fire blanket is just two nouns together.
In Turkish, this type of compound usually works like this:

• first noun stays bare
• second noun gets a compound ending, often -ı / -i / -u / -ü

So:

• yangın = fire
• battaniye = blanket
• yangın battaniyesi = fire blanket

The same pattern appears in:

• kamp ocağı = camp stove

This is a very common structure in Turkish.

Very literally, it means at the side of the camp stove.

Breakdown:

• kamp ocağı = camp stove
• kamp ocağının = of the camp stove
• yanında = at its side / beside it

So:

• kamp ocağının yanında = next to the camp stove

This is a standard Turkish pattern:

• X-in yanında = next to X / beside X

Examples:

• evin yanında = next to the house
• arabanın yanında = next to the car

A few things are happening.

Start with:

• ocak = stove

In the compound kamp ocağı, it becomes:

• ocağı

This is normal. When some Turkish nouns take certain suffixes, final k often changes to ğ.

Then to say of the camp stove, Turkish adds the genitive ending:

• kamp ocağının

So the path is roughly:

• ocak
• ocağı
• ocağının

Also, the ğ in modern Turkish is usually soft and often lengthens the previous vowel rather than sounding like a strong consonant.

Yanında comes from:

• yan = side
• -ı = its
• -nda = in/on/at

So yanında literally means at its side.

That is why:

• masanın yanında = next to the table
• kapının yanında = next to the door

It can also sometimes mean with someone / in someone’s possession, depending on context:

• Telefonum yanımda. = My phone is with me.

But in your sentence, it is clearly spatial: next to.

Tuttuk is from the verb tutmak.

Tutmak has several meanings, including:

• to hold
• to keep
• to catch
• to retain
• to support

In this sentence, the best meaning is we kept or we kept/placed it there.

Breakdown:

• tut- = verb stem
• -tu- = past tense
• -k = we

So tuttuk = we kept / we held

Context decides whether English should be held or kept. Here, kept sounds most natural.

It is built into the verb tuttuk.

The ending -k shows we.

So Turkish often does not need a separate subject pronoun:

• tuttuk = we kept

You could say biz tuttuk, but that would add emphasis, like we did or we were the ones who kept it.

This is very normal in Turkish: subject pronouns are often omitted because the verb already shows the person.

Turkish does not have articles like English the and a/an.

Instead, definiteness is often shown by context and grammar.

Here, the direct object has the accusative ending:

• battaniyesini

That strongly suggests a specific, known fire blanket: the fire blanket.

So even though there is no separate word meaning the, the sentence still clearly gives that meaning.

Yes. This is a very natural Turkish word order.

Turkish often puts the verb at the end:

• Yangın battaniyesini = the fire blanket
• kamp ocağının yanında = next to the camp stove
• tuttuk = we kept

So the structure is basically:

• object + location + verb

That is very common in Turkish.

You can change the order for emphasis, but the verb usually stays at or near the end.

For example:

• Kamp ocağının yanında yangın battaniyesini tuttuk.

This still works, but it shifts the focus slightly.

Yes, it could in some contexts, because tutmak can mean to hold as well as to keep.

But without extra context, many learners will understand it as:

• We kept the fire blanket next to the camp stove

If the speaker wanted to make the idea of physically holding it clearer, the surrounding context would usually help.

So grammatically both are possible, but kept is probably the most natural interpretation here.