Locale Tr Tr

Reference data for the Turkish (Turkey) locale — endonym Türkçe (Türkiye), written in the Latin script, left-to-right (LTR).

Identifiers

• BCP 47 tag: tr-TR
• ISO 639-1: tr
• ISO 639-3: tur
• Script: Latn (Latin)
• Region: TR (Turkey)
• Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)

Speakers (approximate)

• L1 (native): 76,000,000
• L2 (additional): 5,000,000
• L1+L2 (total): 81,000,000

Base locale

This is a regional variant of Locale Tr 001 (Turkish), the base/macro locale for this language.

Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, other (2 forms).

• one — n = 1 (e.g. 1)
• other — everything else (e.g. 0, 2~16, 100, 1000, …)

See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.

Translating into this locale

Apply Locale Tr 001 with the conventions of Turkey.

• Formats: Turkish lira (₺) before the amount in CLDR; dates 17.10.2026; 24-hour clock; decimal comma, period for thousands.
• Names and addresses: given name then surname; Bey and Hanım follow the first name; the Turkish ID number and address format have their own conventions.
• Terminology: TDK and Turkish government bodies publish approved terms; prefer them over foreign loanwords in official content.
• Tone: warm, courteous, and respectful of elders; rhetoric and hospitality phrases (Hoş geldiniz, Kolay gelsin) are natural in service text.

Common pitfalls

• Using English date or number formats.
• Dropping honorifics in correspondence.
• The general pitfalls in Locale Tr 001 also apply.

Learn more

• Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
• Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
• Unicode CLDR locale data for number, date, and currency formats (https://cldr.unicode.org)