Learn Hardcore Turkish: Zeytinyağı, yemeklerde hem lezzet hem de gerekli yağı sağlar. - Olive oil provides both flavor and the required fat in dishes.

It’s a stylistic comma that offsets a fronted subject. Turkish often uses a comma after an element moved to the beginning for emphasis or clarity. It isn’t always mandatory but adds a natural pause.

What case and meaning does yemeklerde have?

yemek (meal/food) + plural -ler + locative -de → yemeklerde means “in meals” or “in dishes.” The locative -de indicates the context or place (here, within foods).

How does the hem ... hem de ... structure work?

hem … hem de … is a correlative conjunction meaning “both … and ….” You link two nouns or phrases to show they’re provided together:
• hem lezzet
• hem de gerekli yağı

Why is there no suffix on lezzet but there is on yağı?

When two direct objects are coordinated with hem … hem de, Turkish usually attaches the accusative -ı/-i/-u/-ü only to the last element. Here gerekli yağı gets -ı, and lezzet stays unmarked.

Is the -ı in yağı a possessive suffix or something else?

It’s the 3rd-person singular accusative case suffix, not a possessive. It marks gerekli yağ as a specific direct object of the verb sağlar.

What part of speech is gerekli, and what does gerekli yağı mean?

gerekli is an adjective meaning “necessary.” It modifies yağ, so gerekli yağı means “the necessary oil/fat.”

What tense and person is sağlar?

sağlar is the aorist (simple present) 3rd-person singular form. The -r ending expresses general truths or habitual actions: “it provides.”

Why is the word order Subject–Adverbial–Object–Verb instead of English SVO?

Turkish is fundamentally SOV (Subject–Object–Verb). Adverbials (like locative phrases) can appear between the subject and object. In your sentence the order is:

Subject: Zeytinyağı
Adverbial: yemeklerde
Object phrase: hem lezzet hem de gerekli yağı
Verb: sağlar