Every Turkish special character ready to copy with one click — including the famous dotless ı and capital dotted İ that no English keyboard can type. The full 29-letter alphabet is below if you need the whole set.
Turkish splits i into two separate letters: the dotless ı (a deep back vowel) and the dotted i (as in English). They are never interchangeable.
Casing works differently in Turkish: İ (with a dot) is the capital of i, and plain I (no dot) is the capital of ı. İstanbul, not Istanbul.
The complete alphabet in dictionary order. Turkish has no q, w, or x — and ı comes before i.
Click any character to copy it, or use the section buttons to copy groups.
The Turkish alphabet has 29 letters: the Latin set minus q, w, and x, plus six special characters — ç, ğ, ö, ş, ü — and a split of i into two fully independent letters. The dotless ı (U+0131) is a back vowel pronounced deep in the mouth, while the dotted i is the front vowel English speakers know. Each has its own place in dictionary order, with ı sorted before i, and they are never interchangeable in writing. The alphabet was adopted in 1928, when Türkiye replaced the Arabic script, and it is strictly phonetic — every letter maps to exactly one sound.
The casing rules around ı and i are the single biggest trap for software and typists alike. The capital of dotted i is İ (U+0130, with the dot kept), and the capital of dotless ı is plain I. So the city is İstanbul, not Istanbul, and lowercasing the English word "IT" with Turkish rules produces "ıt". This mismatch is famous enough among programmers to have a name — the Turkish-I problem — because case-conversion code written for English silently corrupts Turkish text. When you copy from this page, you get exactly the codepoint you clicked, dot or no dot.
Unicode scatters the Turkish letters across two blocks: ç, ö, and ü live in Latin-1 Supplement, while ğ, ı, ş, İ, Ğ, and Ş sit in Latin Extended-A — all of them precomposed single characters that render on every modern platform. People reach for this page to spell Turkish names correctly in documents and forms — Erdoğan, Çağla, Gülşen — to write Turkish words in social bios and messages, and to finish homework without installing a Turkish keyboard layout. The soft g (ğ) never begins a word; it lengthens the vowel before it, as in dağ (mountain).
The dotless ı is Unicode U+0131. In Microsoft Word, type 0131 and press Alt+X to convert it. The classic Alt+0253 code only produces ı on systems set to the Turkish code page, so it fails on most English Windows setups — copying from this page is the reliable route. The capital dotted İ is U+0130 (0130 then Alt+X in Word).
Turkish has two separate i-letters, each with its own capital. Dotless ı (lowercase) pairs with dotless I (uppercase); dotted i pairs with dotted İ. The dot is preserved through case changes, unlike in English. That is why the city is written İstanbul, and why English-based autocapitalization mangles Turkish words — it turns i into I instead of İ.
Yes — all Turkish characters are standard precomposed Unicode from the Latin-1 Supplement and Latin Extended-A blocks, so they display correctly on Instagram, TikTok, Discord, X, WhatsApp, and virtually every modern app. Some services restrict account handles to ASCII letters and numbers; in those cases ı, ğ, or ş will paste fine but may be rejected when you save.
The 1928 alphabet reform chose one letter per Turkish sound, and the sounds of q, w, and x are covered by k, v, and ks. The three letters were left out entirely and for decades did not appear on Turkish keyboards. They show up today only in foreign brand names and loanwords — a Turkish dictionary jumps straight from p to r via no q at all.
Use the free online Turkish keyboard linked below — it gives you the standard Turkish Q layout in your browser, with ç, ğ, ı, ö, ş, and ü in their native positions and nothing to install. For Windows keyboard shortcuts, the Turkish alt codes page lists every numeric code alongside Word's Alt+X method.