Turkish translation agency

A sworn Turkish translation for your official documents

A sworn translation from Turkish into Dutch or from Dutch into Turkish is provided by a sworn translator at our Turkish translation agency. A sworn translator holds a completed translation qualification at higher professional education (HBO) level and is authorised to officially translate documents such as deeds, diplomas, Chamber of Commerce extracts or birth certificates.

It may be necessary to have your sworn Turkish translation legalized for use in the relevant country. We have specified the legalization requirements per country. Urgent Vertalen offers the service of legalizing your sworn translation. Our translation agency is located strategically in The Hague, close to all relevant authorities required for the legalization process. As a result, we are able to efficiently handle the entire legalization for you at a low cost.

Why choose Urgent Vertalen’s legalization service? You save time and effort. There is no need to take a day off to visit multiple institutions. Nor do you need to travel back and forth to The Hague several times – saving you travel costs. Urgent Vertalen is an expert in the legalization of your documentation and is always up to date with the latest regulations concerning legalization. This means you will not face any unpleasant surprises at the authorities. Once your sworn translation is completed, we can immediately begin the full legalization process – meaning your legalized document is ready sooner. Your documentation will be sent to you via trackable post, so you will know exactly when to expect your legalized documents.

Information about the Turkish language

The official language of Turkey is Turkish. Turkish belongs to the group known as the “Turkic languages”. The Turkic languages form a closely related language family spoken across 35 countries, by Turkic peoples ranging from Eastern Europe to Central China and the Arctic Ocean in Northeast Asia. In total, approximately 220 million people speak a Turkic language as their mother tongue, of which around 40% speak Turkish – roughly 81 million people. Turkic languages are also used as a lingua franca. They are often regarded as dialects due to their high degree of similarity and mutual intelligibility. The origin of the Turkish language? Turkish originally comes from the steppe regions of Mongolia, where it was spoken by nomadic peoples who brought the language with them to Turkey.

Turkish is the only official language spoken in Turkey, used by 90% of the population. It is also the official language of Cyprus and certain municipalities in Macedonia. In addition, the language is spoken outside Turkey by minorities in Balkan and Caucasus countries such as Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Syria, Romania, Moldova and Azerbaijan. Due to migration, Turkish is also frequently spoken in countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Within Turkish, there are many regional dialects.

The Turkish (Latin) alphabet, known as “the Türk alfabesi”, consists of 29 characters. The letters Q, W and X are not part of the Turkish alphabet, although W is used for internet-related contexts. The Turkish alphabet differs from the Dutch alphabet as it includes the letters Ç, Ğ, İ, Ö, Ü and Ş. The Türk alfabesi was introduced in 1928 as part of the Kemalist reforms. Before that, the Arabic alphabet was used. This earlier script, based on the Arabic script, is referred to as Ottoman Turkish (Turkish: Osmanlica).

Today, Turkish is used without the Ottoman influences of Arabic and Persian loanwords. Due to the language purification process, the differences between modern Turkish and Ottoman Turkish have increased – not only in written form. As a result of several language reforms driven by violent regime changes, the modern Turkish vocabulary and written language now more closely align with the spoken language.