Breakdown of Bakan, müttefiklerin ülkeden çekileceği hakkında konuşmak istemedi.
konuşmak
to speak / to talk
istemek
to want / to require / to call for
ülke
country
hakkında
about, concerning
bakan
minister
çekilmek
to withdraw
müttefik
ally
Questions & Answers about Bakan, müttefiklerin ülkeden çekileceği hakkında konuşmak istemedi.
Why does the verb çekilmek take the form çekileceği here?
To say "about the allies withdrawing" (which implies a planned or future action in this context), the verb çekilmek (to withdraw) is turned into a noun clause. We add the future nominalizer -(y)ecek (which becomes -(y)eceğ- due to consonant mutation) and the 3rd-person possessive suffix -i. This connects it to the genitive subject müttefiklerin (the allies'), literally making it "the allies' future withdrawing".
Since müttefiklerin (the allies) is plural, why doesn't the clause use the plural possessive -leri (çekilecekleri)?
In Turkish, when a plural, third-person subject is explicitly stated in the sentence (like the -ler in müttefiklerin), the plural marker on the nominalized verb is often dropped. Using the singular possessive -i (çekileceği) sounds very natural and avoids repetition, though çekilecekleri hakkında would also be grammatically correct.
Could I use dair or ilişkin instead of hakkında to mean "about"?
Yes, but you would need to change the case ending on the noun clause. While hakkında can directly follow this kind of clause without any extra case endings, dair and ilişkin require the dative case (-e/-a). You would have to add the buffer -n- and the dative -e, making it çekileceğine dair or çekileceğine ilişkin.
Why is ülke (country) in the ablative case (ülkeden)?
The verb çekilmek (to withdraw) requires the ablative case (-den/-dan) for the location someone is leaving or withdrawing from. Since the allies are withdrawing from the country, it becomes ülkeden çekileceği.
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