Subtitling · Turkish
Turkish subtitling services
Native Turkish subtitlers for corporate video, eLearning, documentary, broadcast and advertising. Delivered with the dotted and dotless i intact, in the format your platform requires. Part of a full Turkish language service: subtitles, voice over scripts, and translation of any content you need.
About Turkish subtitling
The one language where changing case can change the word
Turkish has four i's, not two: a dotted i and a dotted İ, and a dotless ı and a dotless I. They form two separate pairs, and which uppercase letter a lowercase one becomes depends on the software knowing it is reading Turkish. Set to English, the same conversion produces the other letter.
That makes capitalisation destructive rather than cosmetic. Forced narratives, on-screen signage and shouted dialogue are routinely set in capitals, and an editor's uppercase button, a stylesheet rule or a QA script that folds case to spot duplicates will quietly swap ı for i — and going back down does not undo it.
At GoLocalise, we work with native Turkish subtitlers, treat case as part of the spelling rather than as formatting, and keep the circumflexes that tell kâr from kar where the meaning depends on them.
Which do you need?
Open captions, closed captions or SDH
Three different deliverables that people often ask for by the wrong name. Here is the short version.
Open captions
Burnt inSubtitles burnt permanently into the picture. Nobody can switch them off, which is exactly what you want for social feeds that autoplay muted — and in Turkish it settles the letters at delivery, before anything downstream can re-case them.
- Always visible
- Letter forms fixed at delivery
- Delivered as a finished video file
Closed captions
SwitchableA separate file the viewer can turn on and off, and that can carry several languages at once. The standard for YouTube, Vimeo and the streaming platforms.
- Viewer controls them
- Multiple languages from one video
- Indexed by search engines
SDH
AccessibilitySubtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing: dialogue plus speaker IDs and the sound effects and music cues that carry meaning.
- Speaker identification
- Non-dialogue audio described
- Meets accessibility requirements
Subtitles or captions? The two terms are often used interchangeably. Strictly, subtitles translate the dialogue for viewers who can hear the audio, while captions are same-language and add speaker labels and sound cues for viewers who cannot. We produce either — translated Turkish subtitles or same-language Turkish captions and SDH — in whichever form your platform and audience require.
What we subtitle
Turkish subtitling for every kind of content
Turkish subtitling spans a large domestic broadcast and drama industry with a big export audience, alongside corporate and eLearning work for a manufacturing and services economy — so the same file often has to satisfy a broadcaster's spec and a streaming platform's. These are the formats we handle most.
Corporate & training video
Internal comms, onboarding and product training subtitled for global teams and LMS delivery.
eLearning & online courses
Timed, readable subtitles for course platforms, MOOCs and instructional video.
Documentary & factual
Festival, broadcast and streaming documentaries, including interview clean-up and on-screen text.
Advertising & social
Burnt-in captions for muted autoplay on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and paid social.
Streaming & OTT
Platform-spec subtitle and caption files for VOD, OTT and broadcast delivery.
Accessibility (SDH & closed captions)
Same-language SDH and closed captions to meet WCAG and accessibility requirements.
Events, webinars & conferences
Recorded talks, town halls and webinars captioned for on-demand viewing.
E-commerce & product video
Short product and explainer videos captioned to lift conversion and reach.
How can we help you?
Your project manager has everything covered
One point of contact from brief to delivery, and both a linguistic and a technical check on every file.
Brief review
We review your video, your audience and the player, including where the file will be re-cased, re-encoded or re-styled after it leaves us.
Template and translation
Where needed, we create an English subtitle template first, then send it to a native Turkish subtitler.
Timing and quality checks
Subtitles are timed against the video and checked for reading speed, line length, correct dotted and dotless i throughout, and format compliance.
Delivery and display check
Files delivered in the format you need, with capitals and circumflexes confirmed in the destination player rather than assumed.
Our standards
The specs we work to
Readable subtitles are a matter of measurable limits, not opinion. These are the defaults we apply to Turkish unless your style guide says otherwise.
Maximum per line
37 for broadcast delivery
Maximum on screen
Bottom-weighted, centred
Reading speed
13 for children's content
Minimum duration
Seven seconds maximum
Turkish builds meaning by stacking suffixes onto a stem, so a clause that English spreads across five words can arrive as one long, unbreakable token. The subtitler works to fit the meaning inside the character limit rather than pushing reading speed past what a viewer can follow. Condensing, not overflowing, is the job.
Deliverables
Professional subtitle formats
We adapt your existing translations into subtitle format or create subtitles from scratch, in Turkish, English or any other language. And if the project needs a timed script or a plain document instead, we deliver that too.
Standard text-based
Compatible with most platforms and players.
Broadcast & professional
For broadcasters, post houses and streaming delivery specs.
Burnt-in video
A finished file with the subtitles baked into the picture, letter forms included.
Need a different format? Convert SRT, VTT and more with our free subtitle converter →
| Where it's going | What we deliver |
|---|---|
| YouTube, Vimeo & LMS platforms | SRT or VTT closed captions |
| Netflix, Amazon & broadcast | IMSC, TTML or EBU-STL to platform spec |
| Instagram, TikTok & paid social | Burned-in captions in MP4 (open captions) |
| Premiere, Final Cut & DaVinci Resolve | SRT / VTT that import straight into your edit |
Not sure which you need? Tell us the destination platform and we deliver to its exact spec.
Turkish specifics
Where the letters go wrong, and the one mark you cannot drop
The failure is famous enough to have a name among developers, and it has caused real damage well beyond subtitling. The rule is simple and the consequence is not: only software told it is handling Turkish converts the four i's correctly, and everything else silently normalises them to the English pair. Because uppercase I and uppercase İ both exist, nothing looks broken until a Turkish reader sees it.
The second thing to know is the circumflex. Turkish uses â, î and û to separate words that are otherwise spelled the same, and a pipeline that strips accents to make filenames safe takes the distinction with it. Netflix's Turkish subtitling guide makes the mark mandatory for exactly that reason. The same guide asks for an apostrophe before suffixes attached to unadapted foreign words — Bluetooth'u, selfie'ler — which is another mark that autocorrect likes to move or delete.
One neighbouring detail worth naming, because it is the source of a common mix-up: ş with a cedilla is correct in Turkish and wrong in Romanian, which needs a comma below. Older code pages treated the two as one character, so a file can pass a check aimed at the wrong language and still be wrong.
Since 2008
Subtitling & captioning
100+
Languages covered
ISO 9001 & 14001
Certified processes
24–48h
Typical turnaround
Subtitling rates
Professional Turkish subtitling
For single videos and straightforward content where accurate, well-timed subtitles are what you need.
- Native Turkish subtitler
- Dotted and dotless i preserved
- Frame-accurate timing
For longer content and recurring projects, including transcription, SDH, burned-in subtitles and multiple output formats.
- Everything in Standard
- Transcription and template
- SDH and burnt-in
- Multiple output formats
Every project is quoted individually and backed by our Price Match Promise. Send us your video for an exact, no-obligation quote.
Trusted by global brands
We have used GoLocalise on a regular basis for projects in a number of languages. The service we receive is great. The team is always friendly and professional. The voiceovers we receive are of a very high quality and the turnaround is extremely quick. We are very happy to recommend GoLocalise to other businesses.
It was a pleasure to work with David and the team at GoLocalise. David gave me lots of help and advice, guiding me through my first subtitling project. He really knows his stuff! The experience was completely pain-free. I would not hesitate to recommend GoLocalise – outstanding work at a good price.
They're reliable, adaptive and obsessed with quality. And while you can never be 100% guaranteed of perfection, you can be sure GoLocalise will go the extra mile to get it right every time. We've worked with them now for over 5 years and we are truly thankful to have such a strong localisation partner for our business.
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Most common questions
Why do Turkish subtitles sometimes come back with the wrong i?
Because Turkish has four i's and most software assumes two. The dotted i pairs with a dotted İ and the dotless ı pairs with an undotted I, and only a tool that knows it is handling Turkish converts them correctly. Anything else turns ı into i on the way back down from capitals. We treat case as part of the spelling and check it before delivery.
Can you deliver Turkish subtitles in all capitals for on-screen signage?
Yes, and it is worth asking for rather than doing it downstream. Capitalising Turkish correctly means knowing which of the two i-pairs each letter belongs to, so we set the uppercase version ourselves instead of leaving it to a stylesheet or an editing tool that will normalise it to English rules.
Do the circumflexes on â, î and û really matter in subtitles?
Yes. They separate words that are otherwise spelled identically, so dropping them is not a cosmetic loss — it changes what the line says. Pipelines that strip accents for safe filenames or legacy encoding are the usual culprit, and we check the marks have survived rather than assuming.
How do you handle very long Turkish words in a subtitle line?
By condensing. Turkish stacks suffixes onto a stem, so a whole English clause can arrive as a single token that cannot be broken across two lines. The subtitler rewrites to fit the meaning inside the character limit rather than pushing the reading speed past what a viewer can comfortably follow.
How much does Turkish subtitling cost?
Turkish subtitling is priced per minute of video, from £18. Cost also depends on running time, whether transcription is needed first, whether you need SDH or burned-in output, and how many formats you require. Every job is quoted individually with our Price Match Promise.
Do you also add same-language Turkish captions, not just translated subtitles?
Yes. Alongside translating into Turkish, we produce same-language Turkish captions and SDH — the closed captioning teams need for accessibility and muted social. If your footage is already in Turkish and you just want accurate on-screen captions, that is core to our Turkish captioning service.
Can you work from my existing transcript or SRT file?
Absolutely. If you have a transcript or SRT we spot and time from it, checking first whether the Turkish letters survived however the file was last saved or re-cased. Otherwise we transcribe the Turkish audio first. Every file gets the same linguistic and technical QA.
Which editing software are your subtitle files compatible with?
All the common ones. We deliver SRT, VTT, STL and TTML that keep ı, İ and the circumflexes intact into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the major online editors — or burnt into the picture as a finished MP4/MOV, which removes any dependency on the viewer's font.
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Worth reading before you brief
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