Laravel localization in Turkish Türkçe

Locale codes

Set the base locale in config/app.php. For regional variants, Turkish commonly uses: tr_TR, tr_CY

// config/app.php
'locale' => 'tr',
'fallback_locale' => 'en',

// Or switch at runtime
App::setLocale('tr');

Plural rules: what Turkish actually needs

CLDR defines 2 cardinal categories for Turkish. The sample numbers below were computed by ICU for this exact locale:

Laravel's trans_choice() maps numbers to 1 pipe-separated form for this locale:

// lang/tr/messages.php
'items' => ':count'

// Usage
trans_choice('messages.items', $count, ['count' => $count]);

This language has no grammatical plural, so a single form covers every number.

Try any number live in the pluralization tester.

Localized dates with Carbon

Real output for Turkish (tr locale), generated by Carbon for March 21, 2026:

$date = now()->locale('tr');

$date->translatedFormat('l, j F Y');
// "Cumartesi, 21 Mart 2026"

$date->isoFormat('LLLL');
// "Cumartesi, 21 Mart 2026 14:30"

$date->isoFormat('L');
// "21.03.2026"

$date->subDays(3)->diffForHumans();
// "3 ay önce"

What to watch out for in Turkish

• Agglutinative with vowel harmony: suffixes change form to match the word they attach to, so placeholder + suffix patterns break.
• Dotted and dotless i are distinct letters (i↔İ, ı↔I); locale-aware case conversion is required to avoid bugs.
• Sen/siz formal-informal distinction; no grammatical gender (o covers he/she/it).
• Decimal comma with dot as thousands separator (1.234,56).

Framework strings already translated

Laravel's own validation, auth and pagination strings are maintained in Turkish by the open-source Laravel-Lang project (MIT). Install them, then manage your app's own strings live:

composer require laravel-lang/common --dev
php artisan lang:add tr
php artisan lang:update