Q1218. How to process Turkish and Hungarian commercial document translations?

Answered by the NYC Visa & Translation certified translation team

Turkish and Hungarian commercial documents share a practical profile: both are agglutinative languages with limited translator pools in Thailand, and both countries are EU-adjacent trading partners (Turkey) or EU members (Hungary) with standardised commercial document formats. Turkish commercial documents: the trade registry documents (the trade registry gazette entries, the chamber of commerce certificates) follow standardised formats — the translation maps the standard fields; the legalisation chain runs through the Turkish authorities' authentication and the Thai embassy in Ankara (Turkey is in the Apostille Convention, but Thailand is not — so the chain is the consular legalisation, not apostille, for Thai use); and the language's agglutinative structure (long compound words carrying grammatical information) requires translators with genuine command — machine translation of Turkish legal text remains unreliable. Hungarian commercial documents: the company registry documents (the court of registry's extracts) follow the EU-influenced formats; Hungary is an EU member — its public documents may carry the EU multilingual standard forms for civil status documents (which ease the translation need for those specific documents), but commercial documents are translated normally; the language is famously difficult (Finno-Ugric, unrelated to its neighbors) — the translator pool is small and the pricing reflects it. Points that matter for both: confirm the current legalisation chain with the relevant embassy (the chains' details change); the commercial documents' standard fields (the company identifiers, the registry references) are transcribed exactly; and the translator's commercial-legal vocabulary is verified (a general translator mishandles the registry terminology). Practice points: allow the timeline the translator scarcity requires; and for recurring trade relationships, establish the terminology base with the first projects.