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What to know before you translate into Turkish

  • New concepts often reach Turkish before an agreed term does.

    In fast-moving fields, companies, translators and consultants each choose their own words, or keep the English one. The same concept can end up with several Turkish names.

  • Readers notice when the words don’t match.

    If your interface, your manual and your support pages each use a different word for one feature, customers have to work out whether they mean the same thing.

  • Turkish is one of several Turkic languages.

    Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Uzbek and others are related to Turkish, but they are separate languages with their own readers. A Turkish version does not cover those markets. Tell us where you are going, and we will tell you plainly which languages we can cover.

Settle the terms early, and every later release, manual and training course builds on the same words.

Launch in Turkish with your terminology settled from day one

Bellek researches the Turkish terms your field needs, records the reasoning behind each choice, and translates your content to match. We work across software, technical documentation, standards, books, courses and video. Where Turkish has no agreed term yet, we say so and explain what we recommend.

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What we do

  1. Terminology first

    We research the terms in your field, settle their Turkish equivalents and record why we chose each one. The decisions go into a glossary and a termbase that your teams and translators share, so usage stays the same across a project or a whole sector.

  2. Translation follows

    Once the terms are settled, the translation follows them. Whether your content goes into Turkish or another Turkic language, each concept keeps one name wherever it appears.

Four mediums, one set of terms

The settled terms carry through everything you publish in Turkish: on the page, on screen, in audio and in video. Software and user interfaces are a core part of our work.

Solutions for your field

Entering a Turkish-speaking market means rules to follow, software to ship, products to document, contracts to sign and episodes to publish. Each solution brings together the products you need, around one set of Turkish terms.

Every term decision is on record

We don’t just hand you a word. We show the options we considered, the one we recommend and why, so your team and any future translator can check the decision.

  1. Research

    We study the source term in context, the Turkish equivalents already in use, and the reference sources for your field.

  2. Decide

    We compare the options, recommend one and explain why. If the term is still unsettled in Turkish, we say so.

  3. Apply

    Decisions go into your glossary and termbase, and every translation follows them.

  4. Review

    Each record carries a review date, and we update it as usage changes.

Our full method

What a term record holds

The structure of our records, not a sample term.

Source term
The original term and its language
Turkish options
Equivalents already in use, or ones we could propose
Recommended term
Our recommendation
Reasoning
Why we chose it, in Turkish and English
Sources checked
What we consulted before deciding
Sector
Where the term is used
Status and date
Draft or approved, and when it was last reviewed

Tell us what you’re bringing into Turkish

Which content, which languages, what timeline? A few lines are enough. We’ll tell you plainly what we can do.

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