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Translation - Turkish-English - MAYIN TEMÄ°ZLEME

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Title
MAYIN TEMÄ°ZLEME
Text
Submitted by Bernando
Source language: Turkish

MAYIN TEMİZLEME İŞİNDEN PİS KOKU ÇIKTI İHALE İPTAL EDİLDİ

İHALE ORTASINDA ŞARTNAME DEĞİŞTİ

İPTAL EDİLEN ŞARTNAMEDE İHALE KANUNA AYKIRI DEĞİŞİKLİK

VALÄ°LÄ°K KENDÄ°NÄ° SAVUNDU

İHALEYİ VERENLE KATILAN AKRABA ÇIKTI
Remarks about the translation
This is headlines taken from an article. Since the article is rather long, I thought it could be a good idea to just translate the headlines first, in order to be able to chose what parts of the article to transle afterwards.

Title
SOMETHING ROTTEN WITH MINE CLEAN-UP JOB
Translation
English

Translated by kafetzou
Target language: English

SOMETHING ROTTEN WITH MINE CLEAN-UP JOB. BID RETRACTED

SPECS CHANGED IN MID-BID

IN CANCELLED ONE, CHANGE IN SPECS AGAINST BID LAW

GOVERNOR'S OFFICE DEFENDS ITSELF

BID TENDERER AND PARTICIPANT TURN OUT TO BE RELATIVES
Remarks about the translation
I used headline style as the requester said these were headlines.

I've changed the third one according to the information in the actual article. I believe that "KANUNA" is a typo and should be "KANUNUNA".

Thanks, smy, for your help with "mayın".
Last validated or edited by kafetzou - 23 February 2008 23:14





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23 February 2008 11:17

smy
Number of messages: 2481
3rd line is not correctly translated, it means:
"illegal changes in cancelled specs"

and "akraba çıkmak" is a statement meaning "turn out to be relatives" so
İHALEYİ VERENLE KATILAN AKRABA ÇIKTI = IT TURNED OUT THAT BID TENDERER AND PARTICIPATOR ARE RELATIVES

CC: kafetzou

23 February 2008 16:04

kafetzou
Number of messages: 7963
Thanks about "akraba çıkmak", smy - I didn't know that!

But I don't understand how the 3rd line could be "illegal changes in cancelled specs" - could you explain? Here's how I understood it:

Ä°PTAL EDÄ°LEN ÅžARTNAMEDE = IN CANCELLED SPECS

Ä°HALE KANUNA AYKIRI = THE BID IS AGAINST THE LAW

DEĞİŞİKLİK = CHANGE

23 February 2008 16:45

smy
Number of messages: 2481
Ä°HALE KANUNA! sorry, I haven't noticed the typo , it's "ihale kanununa"

23 February 2008 16:56

kafetzou
Number of messages: 7963
But that's not what it says - the requester clearly copied these headlines directly from the sources. Is there another possible interpretation?

23 February 2008 16:59

smy
Number of messages: 2481
Well, "Ä°HALE KANUNA" is meaningless ,

Bernando could check your source again and edit tell us if you had copied the 3rd line correctly?

23 February 2008 17:03

kafetzou
Number of messages: 7963
I'm sorry to be so slow to understand, but doesn't "Ä°HALE KANUNA AYKIRI" mean "the bid is against the law?"

23 February 2008 17:14

smy
Number of messages: 2481
yes, that's true, "Ä°HALE KANUNA AYKIRI" means "the bid is against the law" but
when we put "Değişiklik" at the end of the sentence, it's impossible to mean anything other than "ihale kanununa aykırı değişiklik"

CC: kafetzou

23 February 2008 17:54

kafetzou
Number of messages: 7963
OK - I've made the change, but I still don't understand that sentence - it was the bid that was cancelled, not the specifications, right?

23 February 2008 17:59

smy
Number of messages: 2481
Yes, that's what the first line says but 3rd line says "iptal edilen ÅŸartnamede" which means the specifications was (also ?) cancelled

23 February 2008 18:01

smy
Number of messages: 2481
ok, here I found the whole article , it seems the specifications was changed and also was cancelled before the bid

CC: kafetzou

23 February 2008 18:15

smy
Number of messages: 2481
but now the source is correct, it's "Ä°HALE KANUNA", then "ihale" maybe the object of the sentence that --> "IN CANCELLED SPECS THE BID IS THE CHANGE THAT IS ILLEGAL"

CC: kafetzou

23 February 2008 21:01

Bernando
Number of messages: 25
Hey smy and kafetzou,

I've checked the source again, and it does say "kanuna".

http://www.spothaber.com/haber.asp?id=72529

But as I understand from your conversation, kanuna vs kanununas only has to do with grammar? Or have I misinterpreted you?

23 February 2008 21:21

smy
Number of messages: 2481
yes Bernando, it says "kanuna" (I've found the original source ) but it's a bit complicated that it may mean both things:

1. IN CANCELLED SPECS CHANGE RUNS COUNTER TO BID LAW (I think this is the correct translation)

or

2. IN CANCELLED SPECS THE BID IS THE CHANGE THAT IS ILLEGAL (this is the questionable meaning )

23 February 2008 23:11

kafetzou
Number of messages: 7963
My God this one is difficult! I guess this is the key part:

Söz konusu değişiklik ihaleden 4 gün önce firmalara bildirildi. Ancak değişiklik zaten iptal edilen ihale şartnamesi üzerinde yapılmıştı. İtirazcı firma şartnamenin ihaleden 4 gün önce değiştirildiğini, üstelik iptal edilenin değiştirildiğini ortaya çıkardı.

The issue is that the change was announced to the companies 4 days before the bid(s). However, the change was made to the bid specifications that were already to be retracted. The objecting company revealed that the specifications had been changed 4 days before, and furthermore that the one that was to be retracted had been changed.

23 February 2008 23:15

kafetzou
Number of messages: 7963
I've changed it again.

23 February 2008 23:15

kafetzou
Number of messages: 7963
Bernando, the grammar makes all the difference here in terms of meaning.

24 February 2008 00:13

Bernando
Number of messages: 25
Haha, yeah, I noticed that you had already found it smy. =)

But kafetzou, I got a bit confused by "the change was made to the bid specifications that were already to be retracted"? Does it actually say that in the part of the article that you pasted? Sounds very wierd. So they had first decided to retract the specifications, and then later on they changed the specifications?

Or should I interpret it as: they changed the specifications during the bidding round (by accepting late tenders), which is illegal, and therefore they had to retract (and re-do) the whole bidding round?

24 February 2008 00:44

kafetzou
Number of messages: 7963
Bernando, I translated the section I excerpted above - you can see the translation right below it.

My interpretation is that they changed the specifications after it had already been decided that the first bid was going to be retracted, and that the way they changed the specifications might have affected whether or not the bid was retracted, but it was too late, so that was illegal (I guess).

24 February 2008 01:04

Bernando
Number of messages: 25
Alright. It's just that the order of events seems a bit strange to me. Why change the specifications if they had already decided to retract the round??? Strange... However, retracting the round due to a (illegal) change in specifications would make sense. Anyhow, I'm going to have the rest of the article translated as well, maybe it will be clearer then.

Thanks!

24 February 2008 02:25

kafetzou
Number of messages: 7963
OK - I did the best I could. Let's see what another translator can do with the whole article.
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