A focused first week in Turkish builds the foundation vowel harmony and agglutination depend on, without trying to absorb the whole grammar system at once.
Learn all 29 letters (see Turkish Alphabet), paying particular attention to the dotted/dotless İ/I distinction and classifying each vowel as front or back as you go.
Learn 5–10 common words with a single suffix attached (plurals, simple possessives) as whole units, rather than starting from an abstract suffix table — real examples first, pattern recognition second.
Add common phrases (see Turkish Phrases) and practice a few simple subject-object-verb sentences, noticing the verb consistently landing at the end.
See also the reference page: Turkish for Beginners.
The dotted/dotless İ/I distinction and classifying each vowel as front or back — both are foundational to vowel harmony, which shapes most of the grammar that follows.
No — learning a handful of common, single-suffix words as whole units first, then noticing the pattern, tends to work better than starting from an abstract suffix table.
Simple subject-object-verb sentences, deliberately noticing that the verb consistently comes at the end.
No — it's better saved for after basic sentence structure feels comfortable, since it's a genuinely distinctive feature that benefits from dedicated later attention.