Breakdown of Uzmanların incelemekte olduğu kanser bulguları dün sunuldu.
olmak
to be
dün
yesterday
incelemek
to examine
sunmak
to present
Questions & Answers about Uzmanların incelemekte olduğu kanser bulguları dün sunuldu.
How does incelemekte olduğu translate to "that they are currently analyzing"?
This is the formal present continuous object relative clause. It is built using the verb incelemek (to analyze) with the formal continuous suffix -mekte, followed by the helper verb olmak in its relative form (olduğu). While standard Turkish often just uses incelediği for both "that they analyzed" and "that they analyze", using -mekte olduğu specifically emphasizes that the analysis is happening right now, which is very common in academic or news contexts.
Since the subject is plural (uzmanların, the experts), why does the sentence use the singular olduğu instead of the plural oldukları?
In Turkish, when a plural subject already explicitly includes the plural suffix -lar or -ler (as in uzmanların), the verb or relative participle does not need to repeat the plurality. Taking the 3rd-person singular possessive (olduğu) is very natural and common here, though uzmanların incelemekte oldukları would also be perfectly correct.
If we want to emphasize that the action is continuous, why can't we use the standard continuous suffix -yor here?
Because of Turkish grammar rules, you cannot directly combine the continuous suffix -yor with the object relative suffix -dık. To explicitly state that an action is ongoing in this type of clause, you have to use the -mekte olduğu workaround instead of -yor.
How is the verb sunuldu (were presented) constructed?