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• A criminal file: what is translated in writing Turkish criminal procedure provides for oral translation at the hearing. Written work on a criminal file comes from the cross-border request instead.
• Arbitration file: proceedings language and documents Under Law No. 4686 Article 10(C) the parties choose the language of the proceedings, otherwise the tribunal does; the item follows that language.
• Bilingual review of a translation made elsewhere A review reads a finished translation against its source and reports what diverges. It does not re-certify a text that another person signed.
• Expert report: tables, annexes and the conclusion A Turkish expert report going abroad: HMK Articles 266(1) and 280(1) frame the item, which covers the tables, enclosures and the conclusion.
• Figures, dates and identifiers in a legal file Turkish documents group thousands with a full stop and mark decimals with a comma. Figures, dates and identity numbers are carried, never converted.
• Foreign divorce judgment: registration file documents Registering a foreign divorce under Law No. 5490 Article 27/A, or notifying a child’s acknowledgement made abroad: which papers the item covers.
• Foreign judgment into Turkish: what the set covers MÖHUK Article 53(1) names two attachments to an exequatur petition, the judgment and the proof of finality, each with an approved translation.
• Inheritance file: which documents the work covers An inheritance file rests on a death record, a certificate of inheritance or will, an asset list and powers of attorney, each in its own form.
• Seals, signatures and thumbprints on a document Much of a Turkish legal document consists of marks rather than sentences. Each seal, paraph, thumbprint and stamp is described, not left out.
• Signed contract or bilingual text: two different items A signed contract rendered afterwards and a bilingual text are separate items; which version prevails is the parties’ clause, not the translator’s.
• Sworn translation in Türkiye: no register, no affidavit Türkiye keeps no roll of legal translators and no affidavit route: the oath is taken at a notary’s office and its record stays there.
• The limits of what a translator can be asked to do A translator renders the text. Choosing the route, lodging the request, certifying the result and advising on the case belong to other people.
• Translating a litigation file, not one document A file is dozens of documents with one set of names, numbers and terms. The work is fixing the scope and keeping those three constant.
• What an authority reads before accepting a text Before the content, a receiving authority looks for a name, a title, a signature on every page and a statement of accuracy in its own language.