Turkish date notation is relatively straight forward; the most challenging part is memorizing the days of the week and months of the year. You’ll also want to brush up on your Turkish numbers. In this quick-and-easy guide, we’ll teach you how to name and pronounce the days and months, and then explain how to put it all together when writing out the date! With just a little practice, you’ll be ready to make plans, complete important paperwork and have chats about the date in Turkish.
Days Of The Week In Turkish
Monday — pazartesi
Tuesday — salı
Wednesday — çarşamba
Thursday — perşembe
Friday — cuma
Saturday — cumartesi
Sunday — pazar
Months Of The Year In Turkish
January — ocak
February — şubat
March — mart
April — nisan
May — mayıs
June — haziran
July — temmuz
August — ağustos
September — eylül
October — ekim
November — kasım
December — aralık
Turkish Date Notation
Now that you’ve learned the days of the week and months of the year, it’s time to put it all together in Turkish date format. This is the simplest part. Like in many other languages, in Turkish you write the date as DD Month YYYY. For instance, if you’re writing “April 2, 2019,” it would be 2 Nisan 2019. Note that the month is capitalized, but only when it appears in a date. Months are also not usually abbreviated in Turkish, so you wouldn’t write “Apr” for “April.”
For a more informal (and numerical) version of the date, you could also write DD.MM.YYYY, or 02.04.2019 for the example above. Just remember that, unlike in English, the day always goes before the month.