İnsan kaynakları departmanı bugünden itibaren yeni politikayı uygulamıyor.

Questions & Answers about İnsan kaynakları departmanı bugünden itibaren yeni politikayı uygulamıyor.

How does bugünden itibaren mean 'starting from today'?
The word itibaren means 'starting from' or 'as of'. It always requires the preceding word to take the ablative case (-dan / -den / -tan / -ten), which normally means 'from'. So, bugün (today) becomes bugünden (from today), and together with itibaren it means 'starting from today' or 'as of today'.
Why does the verb uygulamıyor have an 'mı' instead of the usual negative 'ma' or 'me'?
The base verb is uygulamak (to apply). To make it negative, we add -ma, making the stem uygulama-. However, in Turkish, when a word ending in a wide vowel (a or e) is followed by the present continuous -yor suffix, that vowel narrows to ı, i, u, or ü. Therefore, uygulamayor naturally reduces to uygulamıyor.
Why is there an '-ı' at the end of departmanı?
This is because İnsan kaynakları departmanı is a noun compound. In Turkish, when you link nouns together to make a specific concept like 'human resources department', the final noun needs a possessive suffix to connect them. Here, departman takes the third-person possessive to link it to İnsan kaynakları.
Why does politika have the '-yı' suffix here?
The suffix -yı is the specific accusative case marker. Because the sentence refers to 'the new policy' as a specific, known thing rather than just any policy in general, it acts as the definite direct object of the verb uygulamıyor. We add -y as a buffer letter to separate the vowels, followed by to match the vowel harmony of politika.

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