Turkish translator

We deliver Standard Istanbul Turkish (tr-TR), the TDK norm, for all official and business documents. Cypriot Turkish (tr-CY) and diaspora variants are confirmed per project — relevant for family matters or documents from Northern Cyprus and the Turkish Cypriot community in the UK. Mixing the TDK norm with diaspora vocabulary in an official document is a common reason it is questioned by a Turkish authority, so we hold to a single variant throughout.

The UK has no sworn-translator institute, so there is no "sworn translator" as a legal office here. For official acceptance — Home Office visa and asylum applications, family courts, civil registries and naturalisation — our Turkish translation agency provides certified translation: a signed and dated statement of accuracy from the translator or the agency, with our contact details. Where a body asks for more, this can be escalated to notarisation by a solicitor or notary public, or to an apostille or legalisation through the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). We confirm in the quote which level your receiving authority requires.

Turkey has been a contracting party to the Hague Apostille Convention (1961) since 1985. Turkish certificates, diplomas and notarial documents are legalised with an apostille from the competent Turkish authority — the district authority (Kaymakamlık) or the provincial governor (Valilik). For a UK document going to Turkey, legalisation runs the other way through the FCDO. We guide you on the correct route and confirm which steps apply to your document. See [GOV.UK — Get a document legalised](https://www.gov.uk/get-document-legalised).

Yes. Documents predating the 1928 script reform — old birth or marriage registers, archive deeds, property papers — are written in Ottoman Turkish using Arabic script. We coordinate these projects with translators who handle Ottoman palaeography. Please request a quote with a scan of the document so we can confirm the approach and lead time.

Common cases are Home Office visa and asylum applications, family-reunification documents, birth and marriage certificates, divorce decrees and custody orders, diplomas, supplier contracts and technical manuals for the textile and automotive sectors. Certification is provided where the authority requires it; standard professional translation covers your everyday business documents. We confirm the approach per document in the quote.

For legal Turkish translation — contracts, divorce and custody dossiers, judgments and notarial deeds — we pair you with a legally trained translator and deliver certified versions where the court or authority requires it. Our legal-translation page goes deeper into certification, the closing statement of accuracy and the difference between Turkish and English legal concepts. See [legal translation](/en/services/legal-translation/).

On working days you receive a reply within 1 hour. The lead time for the translation itself depends on document type, volume, language pair and any required certification, and is confirmed in the quote. For tight deadlines we confirm a workable rush schedule up front rather than promising a fixed turnaround.

A Turkish translation agency takes the coordination off your hands. We select the specialist who fits your document and subject, arrange certification, notarisation or apostille where the Home Office, a court or a registry requires it, and have the work checked by a second reviewer where the legal field, risk profile or volume requires it. You keep one point of contact for variant, terminology, the apostille route, scheduling and delivery — including Ottoman documents and cross-border family matters — all under a single quote. A skilled freelance translator does excellent work too; the difference an agency adds is bringing those moving parts together so you are not managing them separately.