Turkish is a Turkic language with about 70 million speakers in Turkey and in several other countries, including Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Uzbekistan.

Until 1928, Turkish was written with a version of the Perso-Arabic script known as the Ottoman Turkish script. In 1928, as part of his efforts to modernise Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk issued a decree replacing the Arabic script with a version of the Latin alphabet, which has been used ever since. Nowadays, only scholars and those who learnt to read before 1928 can read Turkish written in the Arabic script.

Turkish is one of the major languages in Europe, but is also spoken in Germany and other parts of Europe as an ethnic language.

Turkish is one of the emerging languages for international business. Turkish is one of the languages more frequently translated by Comms Multilingual. Turkish translation projects have included work on training materials, advertisements, brochures, instructions for mobile phones, scripts, manuals, commercial documents, newsletters, typesetting.