Turkish Translation Services

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.

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.