Bilirkişi karar tebliğini okudu.

The expert read the formal notification of the decision.

Breakdown of Bilirkişi karar tebliğini okudu.

• okumak: to read
• bilirkişi: an expert appointed for an official opinion
• karar tebliği: formal notification of a decision

Questions & Answers about Bilirkişi karar tebliğini okudu.

Why does the verb come at the end in Bilirkişi karar tebliğini okudu?

Because the most neutral Turkish word order is usually Subject + Object + Verb.

• bilirkişi = subject
• karar tebliğini = object
• okudu = verb

So this sentence follows a very normal Turkish pattern.

Turkish word order is also flexible. You can move parts around for emphasis or contrast, but the verb often still stays at the end. For example:

• Karar tebliğini bilirkişi okudu
  This puts more focus on the expert as the one who read it.

What does bilirkişi mean grammatically here, and why does it have no ending?

Here, bilirkişi is the subject of the sentence.

It has no special ending because it is in the basic nominative form, which is usually unmarked in Turkish.

A learner may also notice that bilirkişi is a fixed word meaning something like expert, often in a legal or official context. It is commonly used for a court-appointed expert or expert witness.

So in this sentence:

• bilirkişi = the person doing the action
• no case ending is needed because it is the subject

What exactly is okudu?