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Compliance, Safety & Standards Translation


Alafranga has translated compliance, safety and standards documentation since 2002: CE technical files and declarations of conformity, safety data sheets, ATEX and MDR documentation, and ISO management system documents, in Turkish and more than 40 languages in total.

These documents must satisfy an authority, an auditor or a notified body, and they must be understood by the person who operates the equipment. A changed limit value, a softened warning or one term rendered three different ways can delay a certification or create liability.

We also tell you where translation alone is not enough. In Turkey, for example, a safety data sheet must be prepared by a certified chemical assessment expert under KKDIK; a translated EU version does not meet the requirement.

 

▮What Turkey Requires, Document by Document

Turkey applies much of the EU product legislation through the Customs Union, and CE marking is recognised. Some requirements, however, go beyond translation.

Document Is translation enough? What else applies in Turkey
Machinery instructions Yes Instructions must be in Turkish under the Turkish machinery regulation.
Consumer product manuals Yes A Turkish manual must accompany goods sold to consumers.
Declaration of conformity Yes Signed by the manufacturer or its authorised representative.
ATEX instructions Yes Instructions in Turkish for equipment placed on the Turkish market.
Medical device instructions and labelling Yes Turkish required; terminology as expected by TİTCK. Turkish medical translation
Hazard labels (GHS) Yes, for the text Classification and label content remain the supplier's responsibility.
Safety data sheet No Under KKDIK, a certified chemical assessment expert (KDU) in Turkey must prepare it. A translated EU version does not meet the requirement.
Documents for Turkish courts, notaries or registries Only with certification Sworn translation and notarisation. Turkish legal translation
ISO management system documents Yes Internal use; no statutory language requirement.

This overview reflects the regulations in force in October 2026. For a specific product, confirm the requirements with your notified body or regulatory adviser.

▮Documents and Frameworks We Translate

  • CE marking: technical files and declarations of conformity for machinery, electrical equipment, pressure equipment and personal protective equipment.
  • ATEX 2014/34/EU: technical files, instructions and conformity documents for equipment used in potentially explosive atmospheres.
  • REACH, CLP and GHS: safety data sheets, hazard labels, hazard and precautionary statements.
  • EU MDR 2017/745: instructions for use, declarations of conformity, UDI documentation and risk management files.
  • Management systems: ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and sector-specific standards, including audit and inspection reports.

▮Safety-Critical Content

Safety documentation needs unambiguous terms, consistent wording and traceable changes. Hazard statements, signal words and pictogram references are checked separately: under GHS, "Danger" and "Warning" become "Tehlike" and "Dikkat" in Turkish, while machinery instructions use a different scale of signal words.

This content is translated without an AI draft, revised by a second specialist, and kept consistent across manual, label and data sheet. → Industrial & Manufacturing


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