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Questions & Answers about Ayşe takvim girişi eklediğini, Melis de dosya eki gönderdiğini iletti.
Who is actually doing the reporting here—Ayşe and Melis themselves, or some third person about them?
As written, the default reading is that Ayşe and Melis themselves reported things: the final verb iletti is shared across both subjects (i.e., “Ayşe … iletti, Melis de … iletti”). If you wanted “Someone else conveyed that Ayşe added … and that Melis sent …,” you would mark Ayşe and Melis as the subjects of the embedded clauses with genitive:
Why is the verb iletti singular even though there are two people (Ayşe and Melis)? Shouldn’t it be ilettiler?
Turkish often allows third-person singular agreement with coordinated subjects, especially in writing and when a single final verb is shared. İletti is fine here. You could also say ilettiler for explicit plural agreement; both are acceptable.
What exactly does the ending in eklediğini and gönderdiğini mean?
They are nominalized content clauses (“that s/he added/sent”) formed with -DIK plus possessive and case:
- ekle-diğ-i-ni = ekle- (add) + -DIK (nominalizer; here -diğ-) + 3SG.POSS -i + ACC -(n)i → “that s/he added”
- gönder-diğ-i-ni = gönder- (send) + -DIK + 3SG.POSS + ACC → “that s/he sent”
The whole clause functions as the direct object of iletti (“conveyed/reported (that) …”).
Why do those forms end in -ni?