TRANSLATION SERVICES
Medical report translation
A medical translation renders what the report says. It does not diagnose, prescribe, or tell you whether a treatment is appropriate. Asuman Aksoy, based in Fethiye, Muğla, translates reports between Turkish and Persian, Dari, Pashto or English, in both directions, for the hospital, insurer, university or authority that asked to read them. Clinical decisions stay with the clinicians who have you as their patient.
WHO THIS IS FOR
People carrying a report across a language.
The reader might be a clinic in Fethiye, a hospital in another city, an insurer, or a public office. Each asks for a different level of formality. Ask that reader before you assume a notary is required.
Patients seeing a new clinician
A discharge summary, an imaging report or a recent lab page may need to be readable by a doctor who does not read the original language. The doctor, not the translation, decides what the findings mean for you.
Insurers and assistance desks
A claim file sometimes asks for a sworn translation of a report or an invoice. The insurer’s list is the brief. Payment of a claim is their decision.
Universities, employers and migration files
A fitness note, a vaccination record or a disability report appears in some official lists. Translate the page they named. Do not add the rest of a medical history because it feels relevant.
Families arranging care from abroad
Persian, Dari, Pashto and English reports can be prepared in Turkish from Fethiye, or a Turkish hospital report can be prepared in one of those languages for a family elsewhere. This is not health-tourism clinical coordination.
BEFORE WE BEGIN
Reports people are asked to translate.
Send a description first. Medical pages are sensitive, and the first message should not contain them.
- Discharge summary, including the medication list if it is part of that summary
- Imaging report (the words, not a reading of the images themselves)
- Laboratory results, with the units and reference ranges as printed
- Operation or procedure note, when a receiving clinician asked for it
- Vaccination record, if a school, a university or a public office named it
- Prescription, only where a pharmacist or an insurer has asked for a translation and the original remains the prescription
- Disability, fitness-to-travel or medical-board report, for the authority that requested it
- Hospital invoice attached to an insurance claim, if that claim listed it
- The date of the report and the institution that issued it, so versions are not mixed
- Whether the receiving hospital, insurer or office asked for sworn, notarized, or simply a clear translation
Do not send a full history, images or identity numbers in the first WhatsApp message. If a copy is needed, we agree a way to share it. A translation is not a second medical opinion.
A THOUGHTFUL PROCESS
Render the report. Leave the medicine to the clinician.
The discipline is to translate terms consistently and not to explain them into a diagnosis.
Name the reader
A receiving doctor, an insurer, a court or a migration file will not want the same thickness of file. Tell us who asked, and what they asked for.
Separate the report from the images
We translate the written report. We do not interpret an X-ray, a scan or a photograph. If the finding is only on the image and not in the words, the clinician has to say so.
Agree how formal the text must be
Some hospitals are content with a clear written translation. Some insurers and some official files say sworn or notarized. The stricter word is the one we follow, and the notary is a separate step in Fethiye or elsewhere.
Keep units, drug names and figures stable
Numbers, doses and ranges are carried as printed. A drug name is not swapped for a different product because the names resemble each other.
Translate only the pages in scope
A five-year file is not the job if the doctor asked for the latest discharge. Extra sensitive pages should stay out of the chat and out of the booklet.
The clinician reads the result
You take the translation to the person qualified to use it. We do not tell you whether to travel, to undergo a procedure, or to stop a medicine.
THREE DIFFERENT MARKS
Formality depends on the reader.
A clinic and a courtroom do not want the same mark. Adding a notary “just in case” shares a sensitive page with another office.
A clear written translation
Often what a receiving doctor wants: an accurate rendering in a confirmed pair, without a notarial booklet. Say if the hospital has already told you this is enough.
Sworn or notarized translation
The sworn text is the translator’s signed rendering. Notarized means a notary has acted on that signature. Insurers, courts and some public offices use these words. They still do not make the content medically true. The clinician who wrote the original remains responsible for the findings.
Apostille
Uncommon on a private hospital report, because an apostille belongs on a public document. A forensic or court medical report can be a judicial public document and then follows the judicial apostille route in the issuing country, when the convention applies. Iran and Afghanistan are outside the June 2026 table. Ask the office that demanded the stamp before you look for one.
TürkiyeRota does not provide medical, dental or psychological advice. Health-tourism coordination, where it is relevant, is a different service, and clinical decisions remain with qualified professionals there too.
WHERE IT IS USED
Who asks to read a report.
Match the formality to the institution. When in doubt, ask them, then tell us the answer.
Hospitals and clinics
A doctor in Fethiye or elsewhere may want the latest discharge and the imaging report in a language they read. They usually want the content, not a notarial performance, unless their international desk said otherwise.
Insurers
Claims desks ask for the reports and invoices their form names, sometimes sworn. Settlement is theirs. A translation does not authorise a payment.
Courts and official files
A court may want a sworn translation of a medical report it has already admitted, or it may appoint its own interpreter. A private translation does not replace an expert the court named. Migration and university files sometimes ask for a narrow certificate, such as a vaccination page, and nothing more.
The patient and the family
You may want to understand a Turkish hospital report in Persian, Dari, Pashto or English. That reading aid is still not a consultation. Take questions about care back to the clinician.
COMMON MISTAKES
Sensitive pages, avoidable problems.
The harm here is usually too much document, or a translation that starts explaining.
Asking the translator what the diagnosis means
We can say how a term was rendered. We cannot tell you the prognosis or whether a second doctor disagrees. That conversation is clinical.
Sending the entire history in the first chat
A quotation needs the type, the language, the length and the reader. A full record in WhatsApp is more exposure than the job requires.
Translating an illegible scan
A crease through a dose is a safety problem. If a line cannot be read, the translation will say so rather than guess a number. Photograph the page flat, in daylight, before you rely on it.
Notarizing a report the hospital did not ask to notarize
The extra step shares the content with a notary and does not make the medicine more acceptable to a doctor who only wanted to read it.
PRACTICAL TIPS
A report a clinician can trust to read.
Clarity is the safety measure.
- Include the header and the date so the version is obvious.
- Keep drug names, doses and units exactly as printed, and point out any figure you yourself cannot read.
- Ask the receiving institution whether it wants sworn, notarized, or a plain written translation.
- Translate the latest relevant report unless they asked for the history.
- Carry the original report as well. Many clinicians want both.
- For an appointment where nobody shares a language, book interpreting separately. A translated PDF does not speak in the room.
TIMING
Clinical urgency is not a translation promise.
Tell us if a clinician is waiting, and tell us the length and the pair. We will say what window is workable for the written translation. That is not a promise to outrun a hospital’s own timetable, a notary’s day, or an insurer’s queue, and it is not a reason to guess an unreadable dose. No fee and no fixed number of days is stated here. If the need is emergency care, contact a health service directly rather than waiting on a translation.
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Describe the report. Do not attach it yet.
Tell us the type of report, the languages, the length and who will read it. We answer from Fethiye on WhatsApp and agree a way to see the page only if a copy is actually needed.
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