İyi akşamlar, toplantı bitti.

Literally, it means good evenings, but in real use it corresponds to good evening.

You use İyi akşamlar in the evening as a polite greeting. It can also be used when leaving or ending a conversation in the evening. It is very common in shops, workplaces, apartment buildings, and other polite everyday situations.

This is just the normal fixed expression in Turkish. Time-of-day greetings often use the plural:

• İyi günler = good day / have a nice day
• İyi akşamlar = good evening
• İyi geceler = good night

So the plural here is not something you need to translate literally every time. It sounds natural and polite in Turkish. A singular form like iyi akşam is not the standard greeting.

Yes. It can work both ways, depending on context.

For example:

• when arriving somewhere in the evening: İyi akşamlar
• when leaving in the evening: İyi akşamlar

So it behaves a lot like good evening in English. If you specifically mean good night at bedtime or late at night, Turkish usually uses İyi geceler instead.

A few useful pronunciation points:

• İ with a dot is pronounced like ee in see
• ı without a dot is a different vowel; English does not really have an exact match
• İyi is roughly ee-yee
• toplantı is roughly top-lan-tı, with the last vowel being that dotless ı
• bitti is roughly bit-ti

A good way to think about ı is: make an i-like sound, but pull your tongue farther back and do not round your lips.

Turkish does not have a separate word for the.

So toplantı can mean:

• meeting
• the meeting

Context tells you which one is meant. In a sentence like toplantı bitti, it is very natural to understand it as the meeting is over or the meeting ended.

Bitti is the past tense, third person singular form of the verb bitmek, which means to end, to finish, or to be over.

So:

• bitmek = to finish / to end
• bitti = it finished / it ended / it is over

Since the subject is toplantı, the whole phrase means the meeting ended or the meeting is over.

Because the verb stem already ends in t, and the past tense ending here also begins with t.

Very roughly:

• stem: bit-
• past ending: -ti
• result: bit-ti → bitti

This is completely normal in Turkish spelling. You write both consonants because both are really there.

Because Turkish normally prefers verb-final word order.

A very common neutral pattern is:

• subject + verb
• or more generally: other information first, verb last

So toplantı bitti is the normal, neutral way to say the meeting ended.

You may sometimes hear different word orders for emphasis, but for a learner, put the verb at the end is a very good rule.

The comma links two parts:

• İyi akşamlar
• toplantı bitti

So this version presents them as part of one flowing utterance: Good evening, the meeting is over.

Because there is only a comma, toplantı stays lowercase.

You could also write:

• İyi akşamlar. Toplantı bitti.

In that case, Toplantı would be capitalized because it starts a new sentence.

It can match both in English.

Turkish bitti is literally a past form, so ended is a direct translation. But in everyday English, the most natural translation is often is over.

So these are both good translations of Toplantı bitti:

• The meeting ended.
• The meeting is over.

English chooses between them based on style and context.

It is neutral and polite.

• İyi akşamlar is polite and standard
• toplantı bitti is neutral and natural

So the whole sentence works well in ordinary polite situations, especially at work or in other formal-ish everyday contexts. It is not slang, and it does not sound overly stiff either.