Breakdown of Medyanın siyaset ile ilgili yazdığı haberleri okuman lazım.
okumak
to read
yazmak
to write
ile
with / by / and (linking nouns)
lazım
necessary
haber
news
ilgili
related, concerning
medya
media
siyaset
politics
Questions & Answers about Medyanın siyaset ile ilgili yazdığı haberleri okuman lazım.
Why do we use ile ilgili here, and could we use hakkında instead?
Both can translate as "about" or "related to". You can absolutely use hakkında here (siyaset hakkında yazdığı haberleri = the news they wrote about politics). However, ile ilgili often acts more like an adjective phrase linking two concepts together. By using siyaset ile ilgili, the sentence emphasizes that the news itself is "related to" or "concerning" politics.
Why does the sentence say Medyanın... yazdığı instead of Medya... yazdı?
This is how Turkish forms relative clauses to say "that someone did". When saying "the news THAT the media wrote", Turkish turns the subject into a "possessor" using the genitive case (Medya-nın, "the media's"). Then, it attaches the -dık participle suffix and a possessive ending to the verb (yaz-dığ-ı, "its writing"). Think of it literally as: "The media's politics-related wrote-news."
Why does haberleri have an extra -i at the very end?
The base word is haber (news/report). First, we add the plural -ler to get haberler. Then, we add the accusative case marker -i to make it haberleri. We need the accusative case here because "the news that the media wrote" is the specific direct object that is receiving the action of reading (okuman).
Why is it okuman lazım instead of using the "must" suffix like okumalısın?
Both are great ways to say "you need to" or "you must"! While -mAlI is a suffix attached directly to a verb (okumalısın), lazım is an adjective meaning "necessary". To use lazım, you have to turn the verb into a noun using the -mA suffix, and then add a possessive ending to show who has to do it: oku-ma-n (your reading). So, okuman lazım literally means "your reading is necessary."
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