Turkish to English Certified Translation

A certified Turkish to English translation is a full English version of your Turkish document, field for field, with a signed certificate of accuracy from the translator confirming that it is complete and correct. It costs 24.95 for a page of up to 250 words and comes back in 2 to 3 business days, which covers most registry extracts, diplomas and court decisions in one or two pages.

The Turkish documents that usually need certifying

Almost every Turkish file we receive comes from one of three places, the civil registry, the courts, or a school. From the registry there is the Nüfus Kayıt Örneği and its fuller version the Vukuatlı Nüfus Kayıt Örneği, the Doğum Belgesi, the multilingual Formül A birth extract, the T.C. Kimlik Kartı, and the Evlenme Cüzdanı marriage booklet.

From the courts we see the boşanma kararı, meaning the divorce decision, usually as the reasoned judgment with its Esas No and Karar No, together with the kesinleşme şerhi that shows the decision is final. Add the Adli Sicil Kaydı for criminal record checks, the Askerlik Durum Belgesi for military status, a vekaletname prepared by a noter, and a tapu for property. From schools come the lise diploması, the university diploma, the transkript and the YÖK denklik belgesi. Turkish sits alongside seven other languages on our languages page.

Nüfus Kayıt Örneği and the field that is not a birthplace

This is the single most misread Turkish document in an American filing. A Nüfus Kayıt Örneği lists an İl and İlçe, often a Mahalle or Köy, and then Cilt No, Aile Sıra No and Sıra No. Those describe where the family is registered in the population books and where the individual sits inside that family entry. They are not a residential address, and the registered locality is frequently not the place the person was actually born.

A translation that renders those fields as a plain address invites a reviewer to conclude the birth certificate contradicts the passport. The right treatment is to keep each label distinct in English so the reader can see that the place of registration and the place of birth are separate facts recorded in separate boxes. The Vukuatlı version adds the life events, meaning marriages, divorces, births of children and deaths, and those lines have to be carried across in full.

The dotted and dotless i, and the rest of the Turkish alphabet

Turkish uses ç, ğ, ı, İ, ö, ş and ü, and it treats i and ı as two different letters. Lower case i becomes capital İ, and capital I becomes lower case ı. That means Işık and Isik are not the same name, and Şahin typed as Sahin is a different name again.

The practical problem is that the printed data strip at the bottom of a Turkish passport page cannot carry those marks, so the passport shows ISIK in plain capitals while the nüfus record shows Işık. A certified translation follows the source document and reproduces the name as the registry wrote it. If your passport and your registry record disagree in spelling, that difference is explained to the agency in your covering material rather than tidied up inside the translation.

Baba Adı is not a middle name

Turkish records show Baba Adı and Ana Adı, the father's given name and the mother's given name, as their own fields. On American forms those names regularly end up entered as the applicant's middle name, which then fails to match everything else in the file. A clean translation keeps them labelled as parent names.

Family names in Turkey date from the Surname Law of 1934, so older registry entries and archive extracts can show a person recorded with a given name and a place or a father's name instead of a surname. Older entries also carry vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, including terms such as sahife and mahalle, and a religion field appears on the older nüfus cüzdanı. Those all belong in the English version exactly as they stand.

Dates with periods and numbers with a decimal comma

Turkish writes dates day first and separates the parts with periods, so 03.04.1995 is 3 April 1995. Numbers run the other way round from American practice, so 1.500,00 TL is one thousand five hundred lira. Court files add a second date trap, because a decision carries an Esas number in the form 2019/1234 where the first half is the year the case was opened, and a separate Karar number and date for the judgment itself. All three dates matter to a reviewer checking a divorce timeline.

Diplomas, transcripts and the denklik certificate

Turkish transcripts commonly report both a mark out of 100 and a grade point average out of 4.00, along with letter grades and AKTS credits. A certified translation prints what the transcript prints. It does not convert a Turkish average into an American one, because that is credential evaluation and a separate service.

The denklik belgesi issued by YÖK is worth calling out separately, since it is an equivalence decision about a foreign qualification rather than a qualification in itself. Universities and licensing boards often want the diploma, the transcript and the denklik certificate together, and each is priced by its own word count on our services page.

Barcodes, e-Devlet documents and the apostille

Many Turkish documents are now downloaded from e-Devlet and arrive with a barcode, a barkod numarası and a doğrulama kodu for online checking. Those are part of the document and are transcribed rather than left off, because they are how a receiving office confirms the original is real.

Turkey issues apostilles through the governor's office for administrative documents and through the courthouse for judicial ones. The apostille is a page of text in its own right, so if you are sending it with your record, include it in the upload and it will be translated with everything else. Turkish notary endorsements such as aslı gibidir, meaning true to the original, are treated the same way.

Price, pages and what happens if something is rejected

One page is up to 250 words of source text and the count is taken from your file, so you see the real total before paying. Certified translation is 24.95 a page in 2 to 3 business days, Premium is 39.95 a page in 1 to 2 business days when a deadline is close, and Standard at 19.95 is professional translation without the certificate in 3 to 5 business days, for business or personal use. Online orders go up to 50 pages, and for a larger file you can contact us for a quote.

If a translation is rejected because of a translation error we made, we correct it at no charge, and if the corrected translation is rejected again for the same error we refund what was paid for it, provided you tell us within 30 days and send the written rejection. That is set out in our refund policy, and any recipient can check a certificate on our verification page.

Ordering a Turkish to English certified translation

Upload your PDF, choose Turkish to English, pick a service level and pay by card. The whole process is described on how it works, the wider question list sits on our FAQ page, and if you also hold Spanish paperwork the same rules apply in our guide to Spanish to English certified translation.

Scan your nüfus kayıt örneği, diploma or court decision as a clear PDF and start an order. You will see the exact price before you pay.