# Turkish Translation Services

> Turkish translation services for documents from Turkey and Cyprus, by native human translators. Certified for USCIS, with notarization included.

https://roxotranslations.com/turkish-translation/

Roxo Translations offers Turkish translation services for documents from Turkey, from Cyprus and from the Turkish communities abroad, to and from English, Arabic, Italian, Russian and other languages. Every translation is done by a human translator, native in the target language, and reviewed by a second one, never by machine translation.

Send a photo or scan of the document, see the price and the deadline instantly, and receive the translation as a PDF. For the United States it comes certified and accepted by USCIS, with the signed statement and notarization included.

- Turkish from Turkey and Cyprus, in both directions
- Certified for USCIS, with notarization included
- Instant online quote and fast delivery

## Where Turkish is spoken and where your translation is accepted

Turkish is the official language of Turkey and one of the two official languages of Cyprus, and it has official status in some municipalities of Kosovo and North Macedonia. It is also spoken by Turkish communities in Bulgaria, Greece and other Balkan countries, and it has more than 80 million speakers. Emigration took Turkish to Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, France and Belgium, and later to the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, where many families still need Turkish records. The destination decides the type of translation.

| Where | What you need |
|---|---|
| United States: USCIS, courts, universities and employers | [Certified translation](https://roxotranslations.com/certified-translation/) into English, with the signed statement of accuracy and notarization included |
| Brazil: notary offices, universities and public agencies | [Sworn translation](https://roxotranslations.com/pt/traducao-juramentada/) into Portuguese, signed by a public sworn translator and valid nationwide. For Turkish, we confirm before quoting whether it goes through English |
| Turkey, Cyprus and other countries | Ask the receiving authority which format it accepts: we tell you the options before quoting, including the [Hague apostille](https://roxotranslations.com/apostille/) when it applies |
| Turkish consulates, citizenship and immigration processes | The translation into the language the authority asks for, with the apostille on the original when it is required |

## Turkish language pairs we translate

These are the language pairs with Turkish that we translate today, in both directions.

- [Turkish to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- [Turkish to English](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [Turkish to Italian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Turkish to Russian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)
- [Arabic to Turkish](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- [English to Turkish](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [Italian to Turkish](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Russian to Turkish](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)

Need a pair that is not on the list? Talk to us: we answer within one hour, 7 days a week.

## Turkish translation services for Turkey, Cyprus and the diaspora

Turkish builds words by adding suffixes, one after the other, so a single word can carry what English says in a whole phrase: evlerinizden means “from your houses”. Documents from Turkey also follow their own formats. A good translation keeps every letter of the names, follows the order of the original and reads naturally to whoever receives it.

- Letters: since 1928 Turkish uses a Latin alphabet of 29 letters, with ç, ğ, ı, ö, ş and ü, and without q, w and x. The dotless ı and the dotted i are different letters, also in capitals (I and İ). American documents often drop the marks, so Öztürk becomes Ozturk and Erdoğan becomes Erdogan. The translation keeps every name exactly as in the original, so tell us the form used in your US documents when you order.
- Turkey, Cyprus and older records: the Turkish of Cyprus has its own accent and some words of its own, and Azerbaijani is a close but separate language. Records written before 1928 are in Ottoman Turkish, in the Arabic script, with many Arabic and Persian words. If your document is in Ottoman Turkish or in Azerbaijani, tell us when you order and we confirm the options before quoting.
- Names: surnames became mandatory with the Surname Law of 1934, so older records may show only a given name with a father’s name or a title such as Bey, Efendi or Ağa. Many people have two given names, such as Mehmet Ali, and a married woman may keep her maiden name before her husband’s surname, as in Ayşe Yılmaz Demir. In running text a name takes suffixes after an apostrophe, as in Ahmet’in, and the translation keeps the name as written in the identity fields.
- Dates and numbers: the months have Turkish names, so Ekim is October and Aralık is December, and dates are written day first, so 03.10.2026 or 3 Ekim 2026 is October 3, 2026. Decimals use a comma and thousands a period, so 1.500,00 is one thousand five hundred.
- Documents from Turkey: the civil registry record (nüfus kayıt örneği), the international birth extract (uluslararası doğum kayıt örneği), the marriage booklet (evlenme cüzdanı) and the ID card (kimlik kartı), which carries the 11-digit identity number (T.C. Kimlik No). Many records today come from the e-Devlet portal, with a barcode for verification. The translation reproduces every stamp, seal and note.

## The history of the Turkish language

Turkish belongs to the Turkic family of languages, which came from Central Asia. The oldest long texts in a Turkic language are the Orkhon inscriptions, stone monuments carved in the 8th century in what is now Mongolia, in the Old Turkic runic script. Turkic peoples moved west over the following centuries, and after the battle of Manzikert, in 1071, the Seljuks settled in Anatolia. In the same decade, Mahmud al-Kashgari wrote the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, a dictionary of the Turkic languages.

From the founding of the Ottoman state, around 1299, to the 1920s, Turkish was written in the Arabic script, and the language of the court and of documents, Ottoman Turkish, took in thousands of Arabic and Persian words. The first press to print books in Turkish in the Arabic script was set up in Istanbul by İbrahim Müteferrika in 1727, and its first book, a dictionary, came out in 1729.

After the Republic of Turkey was founded, in 1923, the language law of November 1, 1928 replaced the Arabic script with the Latin alphabet used today. The Turkish Language Association (Türk Dil Kurumu), created in 1932, replaced many Arabic and Persian words with Turkish ones, and the Surname Law of 1934 gave every family a surname. Today Turkish has more than 80 million speakers, in Turkey, in Cyprus and in the communities abroad.

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