Turkish to English translation

Check the date on a 2016 card

Turkey’s card licences began on 1 January 2016, and a B class card is valid for ten years. The population directorate says B licences issued on 1 January 2016 stopped being valid on 1 January 2026. Check the expiry date on your card before you fly: a translation cannot extend it.

Source: Nüfus ve Vatandaşlık İşleri, driving licence FAQs (checked 19 September 2026)

The barcode on an e-Devlet record

A record downloaded from e-Devlet, such as the nüfus kayıt örneği (population register extract), carries a barcode number and a QR code that anyone can check on turkiye.gov.tr. The translation carries that number too, so the reader can see the original for themselves.

Source: e-Devlet, belge doğrulama (checked 19 September 2026)

Formül A, B and C

Turkey issues multilingual birth, marriage and death extracts, Formül A, B and C, from population directorates and through e-Devlet, with field labels in several languages. If yours already reads in English where it matters, see documents already in English before you order.

Source: e-Devlet, multilingual birth extract (Formül A) (checked 19 September 2026)

The whole licence

Both sides of the card: name, date and place of birth, issue and expiry dates, the issuing office, the licence number, and each of the classes you hold (M, B1, B, F and the rest) with its own dates and codes, explained in words.

İ, ı, ş and ğ kept straight

Turkish has a dotted and a dotless i, and letters an English keyboard lacks. The translation copies your name exactly as your passport prints it, so the licence, the extract and the passport match.

Civil and court records

Population register extracts, the evlenme cüzdanı (marriage booklet), divorce judgments, criminal record certificates, diplomas and transcripts. Seals, barcodes and signatures are carried across; unreadable text is marked in square brackets.