"Acil durumda polisi ara."

Translation: In case of an emergency, call the police.

[joklomo]

Is it uncommen to use punctuation in Turkish?

[Ektoraskan]

It's unnecessary in this sentence.

[joklomo]

Thanks

[dijkzeul]

Why is: "In the case of an emergency, call the police." wrong?

[AlexinNotTurkey]

I just isn't idiomatic English :) We just say "In case of an emergency" without the "the"

[dijkzeul]

Had not thought of it that way. Indeed the former seems to be 10 times as common. My bad.

Thanks for the help though. I should have thought of it that way.

[AlexinNotTurkey]

If you use an adjective, it does sound fine to include "the." "In the rare case of an emergency..." for example. Without the adjective, it is just a little funky. I wish I knew why! :D