A development team in Türkiye, run for US companies.

Türkiye does not change its clocks. Most US states do, so the gap moves by an hour twice a year. From US Eastern time we are seven hours ahead in summer and eight in winter, which puts your 9 a.m. at our late afternoon. Central time is eight or nine hours, Mountain nine or ten, Pacific ten or eleven.

Eastern and Central teams get a call window in their morning. Pacific teams work mostly asynchronously, with one live call a week. Every market page on this site shows the overlap for that city, in summer and in winter.

The contract should assign the work to you, and the repositories and cloud accounts should sit under your organization from the beginning, so ownership is a fact before it is a clause. Credentials live in your systems. At the end, handoff is documentation and a walkthrough, not a negotiation about access.

NDAs, master agreements and statements of work are agreed per project, on paper your counsel is comfortable with. Payment terms are set in the contract, by milestone or by month. If your procurement team requires a certification such as SOC 2 from vendors, say so early. We will tell you what we can provide, and for many projects the answer is to run the work inside your own accounts and under your controls.

Türkiye has two multi-day religious holidays each year, Ramazan Bayramı and Kurban Bayramı, whose dates move through the calendar, and national days such as October 29. We share the holiday calendar for the year at kickoff and plan milestones around it, so nobody is surprised by a quiet week.

No region is better in general, and the right choice depends on the work. Latin America offers the closest clock for the US. Eastern Europe has a long tradition of outsourced engineering and sits one to two hours from Western Europe. India has deep talent pools with the widest time gap. Türkiye sits between: a morning overlap for the US East Coast, most of the working day for Europe and the UK, and the same hours as Saudi Arabia.

Ask to see a written scope and a progress update from a past project, with client details removed. Ask who will be on the work and who is accountable for it. Ask whether the repositories live under your account. Ask for a small paid first milestone, and review the code yourself or through someone you trust. Our article on outsourcing to Türkiye goes through contracts, ownership and evaluation in more detail.