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German to Turkish Translation Services


Alafranga has translated from German into Turkish since 2002, directly and without an English intermediate version: 208 projects for 44 clients in this language pair since 2009, recorded in our own project system. We translate German engineering documentation, legal and regulatory content, corporate communications and institutional materials for Turkish readers in Türkiye, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and Turkish documents into German.

Germany is Turkey's largest trading partner in Europe. Machines, components and products move in both directions, and so do the documents that come with them: manuals for Turkish technicians, contracts between German and Turkish companies, and information for the Turkish-speaking workforce and residents across the DACH region.

German precision has to survive the translation. The sections below show for whom we translate, what, and where the pair needs specialist attention.

 

The numbers behind our work

Continuous translation work since 2002, with every project recorded in our own system since 2009. The figures below come from those records, not from estimates.

  • 208 German-Turkish projects for 44 clients since 2009, translated directly between the two languages
  • 6,135 projects for 587 clients since 2009, recorded in ]Project Open[ (April 2026)
  • 38 clients have worked with us for 10 years or more
  • 72 language pairs delivered, 40 languages with documented project history
  • 484 translators and reviewers paid across 9,606 purchase orders, 54 of them on 50 or more orders
  • ]Project Open[ open-source project management system, hosted in the EU, in use since 2009

 

▮Who We Translate For

  • German manufacturers exporting to Türkiye. Industrial equipment, automotive components, machinery, energy systems and consumer products reach Türkiye in large volumes. They need product documentation, installation manuals, CE documentation, distributor agreements and after-sales content that meet Turkish regulatory expectations and work for Turkish technicians, dealers and end users. Section hierarchies, controlled terminology and exact tolerances must survive translation intact. From January 2027, Turkish distributors also have to check that machinery instructions are in Turkish. The Machinery Regulation and Turkey
  • Austrian and Swiss companies. Swiss precision manufacturing, Austrian engineering and automation, and Swiss financial and insurance services produce German content that needs Turkish translation, both for exports and for Turkish-speaking audiences in the DACH region.
  • Law firms and corporate legal departments. Cross-border work between German and Turkish jurisdictions involves contracts, regulatory filings, court submissions, expert opinions, due diligence materials and corporate documents. German legal language is dense and structurally precise, and has to be rendered into Turkish legal language that meets current doctrine, including the Turkish Code of Obligations of 2011 and the KVKK framework on personal data. Turkish legal translation
  • Institutions, agencies and public bodies. Federal and Land-level institutions, public agencies, research bodies and intergovernmental organisations need Turkish translation for outreach to residents of Turkish origin, cross-border programmes, environmental and regulatory materials and research outputs. Read a case study with a German federal agency

▮Turkish to German, Too

Work also flows in the other direction. German companies receive documents from Turkish suppliers, partners and authorities, and Turkish manufacturers selling into the DACH region need German documentation.

  • For German companies and law firms: supplier test reports, certificates and technical files, Turkish contracts and correspondence, court and company documents such as trade registry records.
  • For Turkish manufacturers exporting to the DACH region: instructions for use, declarations of conformity and product information in German, translated directly from Turkish. What the Machinery Regulation changes in January 2027
  • Sworn translation: we provide sworn translation in Türkiye, with notarisation and apostille where required. Whether a German authority accepts a translation certified in Türkiye is decided by that authority, so check this before ordering; we tell you which form we can deliver.

▮How We Scale to Project Requirements

Our records cover 484 translators and reviewers with completed projects since 2009. For German-Turkish work, a dedicated pool covers engineering, automotive, energy, legal, medical and institutional content, assembled into project teams matched to each client's subject and audience. Large volumes run with several translators working on a shared translation memory in memoQ, Trados or an online translation platform, so terminology stays consistent from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of words.

Examples of our German-Turkish work: a product catalogue for a German manufacturer, translated and typeset, interpreting and environmental documents for a federal agency, and installation and service specifications for wind turbines in Türkiye.

▮Who We Serve

We work directly with German, Austrian and Swiss manufacturers, law firms, medical device companies, public institutions and corporate communications teams. We also work as a Turkish partner for German translation agencies, inside their tools and respecting their client relationships. Working with agencies

Alafranga operates to ISO 17100:2015, has been an Accredited Member of the ATC since 2007 and is part of the EUATC network. Alafranga Europe Ltd is registered in England and Wales, Companies House No. 16711244.

 


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