For your own document the decision is yours, and this page does not assess its legal character. The principle followed here is plain. Judicial and legal documents are at no stage placed in a free machine translation or artificial intelligence service. The reason is not quality but whose information the document carries and where an upload takes it.
Whose information a court document carries
A court document does not describe only the person holding it. HMK Article 297(1)(b) requires a judgment to contain the identities of the parties and of those joining the case, the Turkish identity number, and the names and addresses of any legal representative and lawyers. The same file will hold the other side’s identity details, the names of witnesses, the findings in an expert report, bank account numbers and land registry entries. Whoever uploads such a document moves not only their own information but everyone else’s in the file at the same time.
The statutory definition of personal data
The Law on the Protection of Personal Data defines personal data as any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. A name, an address, an identity number, a date of birth and information about health or financial circumstances inside a decision all fall within that definition. This page points to the definition only. Whether a particular upload meets a particular lawful condition is an assessment for a lawyer, not for a translator, and it is not made here.
Files where confidentiality is written into the law
Two examples sharpen the question. CMK Article 157(1) provides that, save where the law provides otherwise and on condition that the rights of the defence are not harmed, procedural steps in the investigation stage are confidential. The last paragraph of Article 314 of the Turkish Civil Code states that records, documents and information concerning adoption may not be disclosed in any way without a court decision or unless the adopted person so wishes. Uploading a document from such a file to a service which processes and stores text is a step to think about before the translation itself is considered.
An upload moves the document somewhere else
Text pasted into a free service goes to wherever that service runs, and how long it stays there, who can see it and whether it is put to other purposes are not within the control of the person who uploaded it. In translation work this is a step that cannot be taken back: once the document has left, the decision about the confidentiality of the file is no longer in the hands of the person running it. That is why the principle is not softened with a list of exceptions; an exception list would leave it in force only for easy files.
Reading quickly without sending the file out
A machine draft that reads plausibly does not change the answer. The need to read a file quickly is real, and there is a route that stays inside the office: the pages carrying the time limits, the dates and the operative part can be rendered first, with the reasoning left to a second stage. A lawyer then sees the decisive lines early, and the document does not travel outside the confidentiality framework it arrived in. Acte Tercüme translates court and legal documents without uploading them to free machine translation or AI services.