Step-by-step guides

Most UK bodies want a certified translation of a Turkish document, not an apostille. Where an apostille is genuinely needed it is free in Türkiye and some can now be issued online. This guide covers who asks, which office stamps what, and why the apostille must come first.

Turkish offices treat a UK birth certificate, degree, court order or notarised deed as a foreign public document and want an apostille on it before they will read the translation. This guide explains the FCDO routes, which documents qualify for the e-apostille, the order of steps and the Turkish translation that follows.

Form AN asks about residence, absences, character and family, and some of the answers are proved with Turkish records. This guide sets out the naturalisation sequence for a Turkish citizen, the documents that may need translating, and what happens on the Turkish side once you are British.

Indefinite leave to remain is the point at which five years of paperwork is looked at together. This guide explains what an ILR application checks, which Turkish documents reappear, why the credentials rule matters at this stage, and how to reuse translations you already hold.

A first British passport application asks HM Passport Office to confirm a claim to citizenship, and when the parents’ records are Turkish that means translations. This guide explains which Turkish documents come into play, the wording HMPO uses, and the order in which to apply.

You live in the UK, your husband or wife is in Türkiye, and you want to be together here. This guide follows the Appendix FM partner route from the first application in Türkiye to settlement, and shows at each stage which Turkish documents need a certified English translation.

Buying a flat or land in Türkiye from the UK comes down to one decision: attend the tapu office yourself or send a power of attorney. This guide walks through both, the translations the tapu office needs from a British buyer, and the costs to expect.

When someone dies in one country and their family, funeral or estate is in the other, the same few certificates are needed on both sides of the border. This guide explains what to obtain, in which order, and which translations and apostilles the authorities in each country ask for.

Paying the foreign-currency military service fee from the UK means proving 1,095 days of lawful work or residence abroad to a Turkish consulate, paying a lira-set fee in euros and completing the remote training. This guide sets out the order, the documents and where translations come in.

Your Turkish sürücü belgesi lets you drive in Great Britain for twelve months after you become resident, and then it does not. It cannot be exchanged, so a UK test follows. Here is the timeline, what insurers ask for, and when a translation of the licence is worth having.

A UK photocard licence works for holidays in Türkiye, but if you move there, retire there or return after years in Britain, the Nüfus Müdürlüğü will eventually want to convert it. This guide covers the visitor period, the conversion file, the health report and the notarised translation.

The Ankara Agreement route closed to new applicants at the end of 2020, but thousands of Turkish business people and workers remain on it. This guide covers extending ECAA leave, qualifying for settlement under Appendix ECAA, and the Turkish documents that may need translating along the way.

There is no office in the UK where a Turkish divorce is registered. Instead, you prove it to whichever body needs to know: a registrar, the Home Office, HM Passport Office or a pension provider. This guide explains what the law says, which documents prove the divorce and how to present them.

A divorce granted by a court in England or Wales does not change your Turkish civil record on its own. This guide explains the two ways of having it recognised in Türkiye, the apostille and translation the final order needs, and when a lawyer becomes necessary.

Nearly every Turkish document a UK body asks for can be produced in your kitchen in Palmers Green, if you can log in. This guide covers the four ways to get an e-Devlet password from the UK, which documents to download, and how to keep the barcode useful in translation.

A UK ENIC Statement of Comparability tells employers, universities and the Home Office what your Turkish qualification is worth in UK terms. Turkish is not one of the languages ENIC will read untranslated, so this guide covers the translations, the application and the common causes of delay.

A British degree has to go through YÖK’s equivalence procedure before it counts for a Turkish public post, a professional licence or further study in Türkiye. This guide covers the apostille, the notarised Turkish translations, the e-Denklik application and the timescale.

Someone in Türkiye needs to sell your flat, file your SGK application or appear for you in court, and you are in London. A vekaletname can be made at the Turkish consulate, or before a UK notary with an apostille and a notarised Turkish translation. This guide compares the two and walks through each.

A parent in Türkiye wants you to sell their London flat, deal with a UK bank or handle a probate matter. A vekaletname from a Turkish notary can work in the UK once it is apostilled and translated, but the UK recipient decides what wording it needs. This guide sets out the sequence and the translation standard.

The A.TR certificate that used to travel with every Turkish consignment stopped doing its job for UK trade on 1 January 2021. This guide explains what replaced it, which papers a Turkish supplier sends, and which of them are actually worth translating.

When a relative dies leaving a flat, land or a bank account in Türkiye, heirs in the UK need a Turkish certificate of inheritance before anything can be transferred. This guide sets out the documents, the apostille and translation steps, and when the case must go through a court.

A wedding in Türkiye with a British partner means British documents have to satisfy a Turkish marriage office. This guide sets out the certificate of no impediment, the apostille, the Turkish translations and the local formalities in the order they happen.

Giving notice at a register office, proving you are free to marry, the ceremony itself, and then registering the marriage with the Turkish consulate: here is the order of events for a Turkish citizen marrying in England or Wales, with the translations each office expects.

A Turkish man studying or working in the UK can defer military service through the consulate, but the deferment has to be renewed and the paperwork is British. This guide covers student and worker deferment (tecil), the age ceilings, the documents, and which need Turkish translation.

Going home for good after years in Britain touches the consulate, customs, SGK, the schools, the driving licence office and the bank, and each wants a British document in Turkish. This checklist puts the tasks in the order they should happen, from six months out to the first month back.

Turkish citizens can often open an account through a bank’s app; British spouses and other foreigners need a tax number, a translated passport and a branch visit or a power of attorney. This guide sets out both paths and the documents Turkish banks have asked for, without promising what any bank will do.

An SGK pension can be drawn while you live in Britain, but it brings paperwork in both directions: proof of life for SGK, a Turkish bank that will pay you, and English translations of the pension record for HMRC, a mortgage lender or the Home Office. This guide sets out the routine.

A child born in the UK to a Turkish parent is Turkish by descent, but Türkiye only knows about it once the birth is registered. This guide covers the consulate route, the full birth certificate, names with Q, W or X, deed polls, and the alternative of registering directly in Türkiye.

The UK state pension can be paid to you in Türkiye, and Turkish authorities will in turn want to see it when you apply for a residence permit, open a bank account or import a car. This guide covers the International Pension Centre, payment options, and the Turkish translations of UK pension documents.

A Turkish limited şirket can be registered while you stay in Britain, but only if the UK paperwork arrives in the right order: apostille, then a translation notarised in Türkiye, then the registry. This guide sets out the sequence, the documents and the costs.

Years worked in Britain, and years spent at home raising a family there, can be bought into the Turkish social security system under Law 3201 and count towards a Turkish pension. This guide follows the application from the UK: evidence, the Çalışma Ataşeliği, translations, the 2026 cost and payment.

From job offer to visa, in order: eligibility under the 2025 rules, the certificate of sponsorship, the criminal record certificate, savings, qualifications and family documents. This guide shows where each Turkish document fits and how it should be translated.

Incorporating in Britain needs almost nothing from Türkiye; registering your Turkish company here, or getting a bank to open an account for it, needs a great deal. This guide separates the two and lists the Turkish documents each one asks for.

A UK-registered car can be driven into Türkiye on its own plates for a limited period, but making it Turkish is another matter, and a right-hand-drive car may never be registrable there. This guide separates the temporary and permanent routes and lists the documents, including the translated V5C.

A GP cannot act on an epikriz written in Turkish, and no NHS rule tells you how to have one translated. This guide covers which Turkish medical documents are worth translating, how drug names and codes are handled, and what a translation can and cannot do.

A Turkish ustalık belgesi or MYK certificate means nothing to a UK employer until it is in English and the years behind it are visible. This guide shows which Turkish trade documents are worth translating, what a UK employer or sponsor can actually use, and the order to do it in.

A Turkish judgment reaches an English family court as a bundle: the decision, the finality annotation, and a translation the other side cannot pick apart. This guide covers what makes a Turkish court document complete, what the rules say, and the one thing we cannot do from Ankara.

A birth certificate from Lefkoşa cannot be apostilled, because the authority that issued it is not part of the Hague system. UK bodies have generally worked with a certified translation instead. This guide explains why, what to do when someone insists on legalisation, and how names are handled.

A dentist qualified in Türkiye registers with the General Dental Council through its overseas route, which at the time of writing runs through the Overseas Registration Examination. This guide gives the sequence, the Turkish documents and what we did not verify about the GDC’s wording.

Registering with the General Medical Council from a Turkish medical school means English tests, PLAB or an accepted postgraduate route, and a document set that the GMC checks closely. This guide lays out the sequence and the GMC’s own rule on translated documents.

Engineering is not a licensed profession in the UK in the way medicine is, so a Turkish engineer’s question is how to show what the degree and experience are worth. This guide covers ENIC comparability, Engineering Council registration, and the documents each needs.

A Turkish avukat who wants to qualify as a solicitor in England and Wales does so through the Solicitors Qualifying Examination and the SRA’s admission process. This guide sets out the sequence, the Turkish documents that arise, and what we did not verify about the SRA’s translation wording.

Nurses and midwives trained in Türkiye register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council through its overseas route: an eligibility check, English, a computer-based test, an identity check with documents, and an OSCE in the UK. This guide sets out the order and the NMC’s wording on translations.

Pharmacists with a Turkish eczacılık degree register with the General Pharmaceutical Council through the route for pharmacists qualified outside the UK and EEA: a UK conversion course, foundation training and the registration assessment. Here is the sequence, and what we did not verify.

A UK university reads your lise diploması, your transkript and your YKS result before it reads your personal statement, and it will not read them in Turkish. This guide covers the documents, what UCAS expects of a translation, and the visa file that follows the offer.

Qualified teacher status is what maintained schools in England look for, and teachers trained abroad apply for it through the Teaching Regulation Agency’s service. This guide explains the sequence, the Turkish documents that support an application, and what we did not verify.

Years of claim-free driving in Türkiye can cut a UK premium, but only if an insurer is willing to count them and can read the proof. This guide explains which Turkish document shows your record, which UK insurers tend to accept foreign no-claims, and how to present the translation.

Not everything in a spouse-visa file needs a translator. This guide goes through the Turkish documents one by one, says which must be translated in full, which can be left as they are, and which are asked for only in particular situations, so you order once and order the right things.

From the university’s offer to arrival in the UK, a Student visa application is a matter of matching documents to the CAS. This guide sets out the timeline, the money and consent rules that trip up Turkish families, and the translations each document needs.

Turkish universities admit international students through their own exams and quotas, and every one of them will ask for a denklik belgesi before you can enrol. This guide covers the equivalence of your UK school qualifications, the apostilles and the notarised translations.