Çadır kazıklarını çakmakla kalmayıp çadır iplerini de yeniden bağladık.

It means not only hammering them in, but also... More literally, it is not stopping at hammering them in or not being content with just hammering them in.

So the sentence sets up one action first, then says there was an additional action too.

It is a common Turkish pattern:

X yapmakla kalmayıp, Y yapmak = to not only do X, but also do Y

In this sentence:

• çakmak = to hammer in / drive in
• çakmakla = with doing that / by doing that
• kalmayıp = not remaining/stopping with it, and...

Taken together, çakmakla kalmayıp is best learned as one chunk meaning not only hammering in.

Because these are noun compounds, and then they also take the accusative.

• çadır kazıkları = tent stakes
• çadır ipleri = tent ropes

In Turkish, in this kind of noun compound, the second noun takes a possessive-looking ending:

• kazıklar-ı
• ipler-i

Then, because they are definite direct objects in this sentence, they also take the accusative:

• çadır kazıklarını
• çadır iplerini

So kazıklarını and iplerini are not unusually complicated once you know the pattern. They are just compound noun + accusative.

No. Here it does not mean his/her stakes.

That ending is there because of the noun-compound structure:

• çadır kazıkları = tent stakes
• çadır ipleri = tent ropes

Then the accusative gets added on top of that. So this is a structural feature of Turkish noun compounds, not a real possessive meaning in this sentence.

de here means also / too.

So:

• çadır iplerini de = the tent ropes too / also the tent ropes

It helps express the second half of the English idea but also.

It is written separately because this de is a separate particle, not the locative ending -de meaning in / on / at.

yeniden means again or anew.

So yeniden bağladık means we tied them again or more naturally we retied them.

It tells you the ropes were not simply tied once; they were tied again, probably because they needed adjusting or had come loose.

They are often similar, and both can mean again. But there is a slight nuance.

• tekrar often just means again
• yeniden can sound a bit more like anew / afresh / re-

With bağlamak, yeniden bağlamak is very natural for retie. In this sentence, it fits very well.

It is inside bağladık.

Breakdown:

• bağla- = tie
• -dı- = past tense
• -k = we

So bağladık means we tied.

Turkish often leaves out the subject pronoun because the verb ending already tells you who did the action. So there is no need to say biz unless you want emphasis.

Because Turkish often uses a non-finite verb form for the earlier action and saves the full tense/person marking for the main verb at the end.

Here:

• çakmakla kalmayıp = linked, non-finite part
• bağladık = main finite verb

This is very common in Turkish when the same subject does both actions. English usually needs extra words such as not only ... but also ..., but Turkish can build that relationship directly into the verb form.

Because Turkish normally puts the verb at the end of the clause, and objects usually come before the verb.

So:

• çadır kazıklarını çakmak = to hammer in the tent stakes
• çadır iplerini de yeniden bağladık = we also retied the tent ropes

This is a normal Turkish pattern. The sentence may feel backward from an English point of view, but it is natural in Turkish.

Yes.

The basic idea of çakmak is to strike / hit / drive in. With kazık it very naturally means to hammer in a stake or peg.

So çadır kazıklarını çakmak is a normal way to say to drive in the tent pegs.

Yes, for example:

Çadır kazıklarını çaktık ve çadır iplerini yeniden bağladık.

That is grammatically fine, but the meaning is a little weaker. It simply lists two actions.

The original sentence is more emphatic. It means something like:

• we didn’t just hammer in the pegs
• we also retied the ropes

So -makla kalmayıp gives a stronger not only ... but also ... feeling than a simple ve.

A fairly literal reading would be:

Not stopping at hammering in the tent stakes, we also tied the tent ropes again.

That is not the most natural English, but it shows how the Turkish structure works.

A more natural English rendering is:

We not only hammered in the tent stakes, but also retied the tent ropes.