This study concerns itself with separationism (Beard, 1995) in Turkish and the need for separationism in agglutinating languages as well. The study scrutinizes morphomic (cf. Aronoff, 1994) derivations, which are devoid of semantics. In the expression okuyucu ‘reader’, for instance, there is no other (intermediate) meaning than the meaning of the root oku-(read) and the target meaning of okuyucu ‘reader: the doer of reading’. However, the derivative includes one more formal item,-I with the output okuyu-, right before-CI suffixation. In such formations, morphomic operations, which are motivated morphologically and/or categorically, but not semantically, take place. The-I