Türkiye: language and translation guide
Preserve Turkish characters and verify personal names, address suffixes, and local date formats.
Practical guides for translating files, emails and reviewing results
Languages spoken
Turkish is the official language. Kurdish, Arabic and other community languages are also spoken. Preserve Turkish dotted and dotless i in names.
Translation use cases
Translation can help you understand travel information, prepare a message to a host, compare product descriptions or draft workplace correspondence involving Türkiye. Keep the intended audience and purpose with the text. Machine translation is useful for a first reading; it does not replace a certified translation for an official submission.
Local language information
Preserve Turkish characters and verify personal names, address suffixes, and local date formats. Keep addresses in their original format where delivery matters, and write month names when a numeric date could be ambiguous. Verify specialist terminology with the receiving organization.
Keep Turkish names intact in travel and service messages
A message about a booking in Türkiye often combines prose with a guest name, a venue name and a reference number. Preserve the spelling provided by the person or organization, especially dotted and dotless I. Changing capitalization with an English-only assumption can alter Turkish letters. Compare the final copied message with the source instead of relying solely on its appearance in the translation pane.
Make a requested change explicit: identify the booking, state the current detail, and then state the desired replacement. Keep amounts and dates in a separate review pass so they cannot disappear inside fluent wording. If an address is included, keep the reliable original available alongside the translation. Official identity documents require the receiving organization’s own rules; this tool does not certify names or transliterations.
Further reading: Unicode: character properties and case mappings
Useful language pairs
Language guides
StarTranslate is an online language tool and does not claim a local office in Türkiye.