Business and company document translation

Turkish company documents for the UK

A Turkish company opening a UK bank account, forming a UK subsidiary, bidding for a contract or proving who its directors are will be asked for the same small set of documents, and UK readers rarely know what they are. We translate them with a short heading note explaining the document’s function:

• Ticaret sicil gazetesi (trade registry gazette): the published record of incorporation, capital, directors and changes.
• Faaliyet belgesi (certificate of activity), the closest Turkish equivalent of a certificate of good standing, and the oda kayıt belgesi (chamber registration).
• İmza sirküleri (signature circular), which UK banks and solicitors need to see who can bind the company.
• Ana sözleşme (articles of association) and general assembly resolutions.
• Vergi levhası (tax certificate), tax and social security clearance letters.
• Invoices, proforma invoices, certificates of origin and origin declarations under the UK–Turkey trade agreement.
• Employment contracts, references and payroll records for sponsor licence and Skilled Worker files.

These are usually delivered as certified translations. Companies House, HMRC, banks and solicitors have accepted them to date; a UK notary or apostille is rarely requested, and where a counterparty abroad asks we can apostille the Turkish original in Ankara.

UK company documents for Türkiye

Setting up a company in Türkiye, opening a branch, registering a trade mark, entering a public tender or signing before a Turkish notary with UK corporate documents requires each document to be apostilled by the FCDO and then translated and notarised in Türkiye. The standard set is the certificate of incorporation, certificate of good standing, current appointments or confirmation statement, articles of association, a board resolution and, for the signatory, a passport copy and often a UK-notarised signature specimen. We handle the translation and notarisation in Ankara and can deliver to your Turkish accountant or lawyer directly; see notarised translation in Turkey and setting up a company in Turkey.

Commercial translation without certification

Much business translation needs no stamp at all: supplier correspondence, tenders, product catalogues, company profiles, HR policies, training material, presentations and reports. These are delivered as editable files in the original format with a glossary of your company’s terms, and priced per page at the same rates. Contracts for signature are usually produced as two-column bilingual documents. For websites, product listings and software see website and e-commerce localisation.

What it costs

Turkish to English from £10.00 per page, English to Turkish from £6.50 per page, on 1,000 characters of source text. A signature circular is one to two pages; a trade registry gazette extract two to four; articles of association eight to twenty. Fixed quote per set before we start, with the page count per document shown. Notary tariff and apostille in Ankara passed through at cost (about £12–15 per page and £15 per document in 2026). Account invoicing for companies and law firms. No UK VAT is charged.

Turnaround

Registry documents 1–2 working days; a full formation set with notarisation about 5 working days after the apostilled originals reach us; commercial material at roughly 2,500 words per translator per day, faster with a team.

How we keep company translations consistent

Every client gets a termbase: company name as registered, director names as in passports, product names, defined terms. Once fixed, those terms do not drift between the gazette extract translated in March and the contract translated in October. Numbers, dates and capital amounts are checked by a second linguist against the original, because a wrong share figure on a registry translation is the sort of error a bank will notice.