What is the noter in Turkey
Last Updated: 2023-08-30What is the Noter in Turkey?
The Noter is the person approved by the Turkish state to authenticate documents in order to ensure the rights of citizens and ensure the prevention of disputes arising. The Noter also certifies documents and delegations, documents lease contracts, documents complaints and objections, and undertakes to sell real estate, buy and sell vehicles, in addition to organizing the letter of invitation. In every region a noter is found so that when anyone has to certify his papers, he must go to the Noter of his region.
The Turkish government has worked to give the noter stamp the legal character to documents in Turkey, as it is the sub-governmental body that certifies and documents any government transaction or document and verifies the signatures and seals on the original papers to be registered after that in the official records.
Passing the documents on the noter (Turkish notary) to be sealed has become an indispensable condition for documents to become approved and recognized in Turkish territory. For example, when you buy a car, you can write this contract in the noter, and by this you become the owner of it in an official capacity, and it is not possible to recognize any official document unless it is certified by the Noter in Turkey
Among the functions of the noter:
Document legalization: Passports - Personal ID - Birth Certificate issued outside Turkey - Population registration issued outside Turkey - Driving certificate - Marriage contracts - Education certificates issued outside
Turkey Public and private delegations
Pledges, agreements and corporate contracts
Authentication of signatures and seals for individuals and companies
Attestation of rental contracts in Turkey, residential or commercial
In addition to any document that needs translation into Turkish, it must be certified by Notre in Turkey to be official and acceptable when presented in official transactions in Turkey.
When the noter is stamps on a document, he records his name, number and data for review. In order to reach a specific noter or search for noter locations, you can go to www.tnb.org.tr, click on Noter Bul, define your search criteria, and click on Aramaya Basla. Noter offices are available in all Turkish provinces due to their importance.
What are the noter fees in Turkey:
The cost of notarization procedures varies according to the type of document, the number of its pages, or the number of translated words "If the document is not Turkish." And considering that the Noter in Turkey is not an essential governmental institution, you may find many differences in terms of the cost of certifying a document between one state and another, and even in the same state between a region and another, but in general there are cost determinants in the circuit of the noter, as mentioned earlier.
Average fees for some transactions in the Noter
- Certification of the translated certificate: between 90 and 110 Turkish liras
- Certification of the accounting delegation: between 120 and 150 Turkish liras
- Certification of the car sales delegation: between 50 and 120 Turkish liras
- One-page document attestation: between 40-60 Turkish liras
- Two-page legalization of a document: between 65 and 75 Turkish liras
- Working hours of Noter offices in Turkey:
All days of the week except Saturday and Sunday from 10 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon, and there is a break for lunch between one and two in the afternoon.
Alternate Noter in Turkey:
The noter operates on a shift system during the two days of the holiday "Saturday and Sunday" in order to increase the facilitation of urgent transactions, as many are forced to conduct authentication transactions at the noter on Saturday and Sunday to use the time as much as possible. Certain shift offices are determined on the weekends and start their work hours from 10 in the morning and end at 4 in the afternoon.
What is the importance of the presence of the Noter, or the Notary as it is called in Turkey:
The presence of the notary is very important, so the task of his presence comes directly after government departments and courts, even though he is not an official government agency, but without him all papers and documents are considered null and not present as well, as he gives the official legal imprint of any paper, document, passport or perhaps a sale and purchase contract for a property in Turkey, as it guarantees the rights of all parties involved in the contracts and prevents them from losing rights and opportunities for disputes as well, in addition to that the notary works to facilitate the affairs of foreigners residing in Turkey and their papers that they brought from their country as if they were issued by the state. After being certified by the Turkish Notary, we can also consider that the notary in Turkey is the real facilitator for most things, such as registering marriage contracts, family documents, and birth certificates. As for students coming from outside for the purpose of study, the notary undertakes the task of certifying their certificates they got while in their country. And in the event that a resident or expatriate on Turkish territory wants to send a visit card to one of his relatives from another country, then one of the duties of the notary to facilitate the process of sending that card, and finally he works on obtaining documents for foreigners that include their residential addresses, which will be used in the process of obtaining a residence in Turkey.
Where are the offices of the Notary in Turkey?
Finding the center in which the notary works is not difficult to achieve, as it is easy to reach, in every region in Turkey there is a notary of its own, this is at the level of the same region, and all these branch offices spread throughout the city are gathered by a large main center for all the city called The Noter room which is responsible for all its branches, and if the residents of the area have a problem with the center of their area, they can go directly to the central Noter room and inform them about the matter.
What are the services that the people benefit from the notary in Turkey:
First of all, there must be services provided to the people in Turkey in general that are issued by this office, so it is certain that it was not in vain. First, A copy of the paper that you will stamp or certify from the office of the Notary in Turkey will automatically be preserved, so in the future, if you need an additional copy of your document or in case you lost it, you can return to the same office that you dealt with the last time and get what you want. The profession of Notary helps to limit the spread of any false papers, so the topic is very clear; if the document does not have the stamp of the Notary on, it is false and unreal, in addition to that he helps the Turkish government in archiving and searching for what they want.
Does the notary in Turkey have any disadvantages:
Certainly, there is nothing free of negatives or is absolute positives, because the Notary in Turkey has almost one negative point, which is that all Notaries do not speak a language other than the Turkish language, and therefore foreigners will not be able to communicate with them, so when they want to go to the Notary they must bring a sworn translator who speaks their language to be of help to them in solving their problems and in moving forward with their procedures .
You can find out the names and addresses of the Noter offices in any Turkish state during Saturdays and Sundays through the following link: https://portal.tnb.org.tr/Sayfalar/NobetciNoterBul.aspx
After clicking on the link, select the state and date, then click on Aramaya Başla (Start searching), and you will be presented with the names and addresses of the shift noter on the day you selected.
Mersat Company provides its clients with the authentication service of documents, lease contracts, sale and purchase contracts and all delegations to guarantee your rights and protect you from fraud and forgery, since one of the employees of Mersat Real Estate Company will accompany you to assist you in completing your transactions. It is necessary for you to come to the Noter room to answer your questions and inquiries, please leave your contact numbers by filling out the form and our team will call you back, and answer all your questions honestly and accurately
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