In professional or official contexts, such as government announcements, news reports, or business strategies, Turkish uses formal purpose clauses to express "in order to" or "with the aim of." These are built using the nouns amaç (aim/purpose) or maksat (intent).
Formulating the Postpositions
To link a goal to an action, these nouns take a possessive suffix followed by the instrumental case (ile), effectively meaning "with its aim" or "with its intent."
Both phrases function identically and serve as highly formal equivalents to the simpler -mAk için (in order to).
Same Subject: The Infinitive (-mAk)
When the subject performing the main action is the exact same as the subject of the purpose clause, use the full infinitive -mAk (-mak / -mek) directly before amacıyla or maksadıyla.
This structure frequently pairs with passive verbs to describe general policies where the actor is implied.
Different Subject: The Verbal Noun (-mAsI)
When a sentence describes one party taking action so that someone else can achieve a goal, the subjects are different. In this case, you cannot use the full infinitive. Instead, you must build a possessive phrase using a verbal noun:
- The subject of the goal takes the genitive case (e.g., personelin, doktorların).
- The verb uses the short infinitive -mA (-ma / -me).
- The verb then takes a possessive suffix to match its subject (usually -sI / -si / -su / -sü).
For example, "with the aim of the staff increasing..." becomes personelin artırması amacıyla.
This structure is extremely common in legislation, diplomacy, and official mandates where one organization sets the stage for the actions of another.
