Turkpidya Multilingual SEO Case Study

Overview

Sector: Reference publishing
Engagement: SEO · Content · Technical · AI visibility
Timeline: Ongoing platform development

The challenge

Scale a broad knowledge base about Turkey across languages without producing duplicate, disconnected content.

Organize a large subject into a simple category system.
Publish useful content across many languages.
Build search authority around priority topics.
Make live data available to visitors and to AI tools.

Strategy

How we approached it.

01
Information architecture
Categories, page relationships and internal links that keep a large library usable.
02
Multilingual publishing
A repeatable workflow for localized content and market-specific search intent across every edition.
03
Live data layer
Exchange rates, gold and fuel prices, prayer times and earthquake monitoring, pulled from official sources.
04
AI access
A public JSON API and an MCP server, so other tools and assistants can read Turkpidya data in a structured format.

Multilingual by design

17 editions from one system.

Each edition is localized for its market, not machine-copied. Arabic, Persian and Hebrew run right to left.

turkpidya.com

Turkpidya English homepage: Türkiye, explained, with live figures from official sources

turkpidya.com/ar

Turkpidya Arabic homepage, right to left

Illustrative preview. Each greeting is set in its edition’s own script and direction.

Readable by machines

Built to be cited, not just read.

Turkpidya ships its data through a public JSON API and an MCP server, so assistants and developers can pull it directly. It’s the same work we do for clients under AI visibility.

Data pipelineturkpidya.com

Sources Update cadence

TCMBTürkiye’s central bank · exchange rates Each business day
BigParaMarket data · gold and silver Every 5 min
EPDKDistributor reports · fuel prices by city Every 6 h
Kandilli (KOERI)Observatory · earthquake feed Every 5 min
AladhanPrayer times Diyanet method
TİTCK · SGKMedicine lookup Lookup + suggest

Turkpidya

One publishing system ArticlesLive toolsStructured data

Delivered as

17 language editionsArticles and guides
18 live-data toolsFree on turkpidya.com
Public JSON APINo account, no API key60 req/min per IP Machine-readable
MCP connectorturkey-data-mcp · open source Machine-readable

Read by

Readers
Search engines
AI assistants
Developers

Named sources in, one publishing system, four ways out.

Public JSON API

GEThttps://turkpidya.com/wp-json/turkpidya-data/v1/fx/USD

200 OKJSONNo API keySource: TCMB

{  "source": "TCMB (Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye)",Names the source  "base": "TRY",  "rate_date": "2026-09-23",Dates the record  "rate": {    "code": "USD",    "name_en": "US DOLLAR",    "forex_buying": 48.7499,    "forex_selling": 48.8377  },  "last_updated": "2026-09-24T05:10:05+03:00"Last refresh}

GEThttps://turkpidya.com/wp-json/turkpidya-data/v1/gold?category=gram

200 OKJSONNo API keySource: BigPara

{  "source": "BigPara (named instrument buy/sell quotes)",Names the source  "currency": "TRY",  "price_date": "2026-09-24",Dates the record  "prices": [    {      "type": "gram_24k",      "name_en": "24 Karat Gold (Gram)",      "buy": 6693.17,      "sell": 6694.12,      "change_percent": -0.57    },    …  ]}

GEThttps://turkpidya.com/wp-json/turkpidya-data/v1/fuel?city=istanbul

200 OKJSONNo API keySource: EPDK

{  "source": "EPDK (Energy Market Regulatory Authority)",Names the source  "currency": "TRY",  "unit": "per litre",  "price_date": "2026-09-24",Dates the record  "cities": {    "istanbul": {      "benzin95": { "avg": 81.7647, "min": 80.36, "max": 90.87 },      "motorin": { "avg": 91.5214, "min": 90.1209, "max": 98.7 }    }  }}

GEThttps://turkpidya.com/wp-json/turkpidya-data/v1/earthquakes/latest

200 OKJSONNo API keySource: Kandilli (KOERI)

{  "source": "Kandilli Observatory (KOERI)",Names the source  "earthquake": {    "magnitude": 3,    "depth_km": 6.8,    "location_tr": "GIRIT ADASI (AKDENIZ)",    "occurred_at": "2026-09-24T14:49:04+03:00"Dates the record  },  "last_updated": "2026-09-24T15:05:05+03:00"Last refresh}

Sample response, trimmed · Sep 24, 2026 Also/fx/earthquakes/prayer-times/prayer-times/cities/meds/lookup/meds/suggest

MCP connector

Illustrative

Can you check the US dollar exchange rate for me?

Checked Turkpidyaturkey-data · exchange rate · USD

Türkiye’s central bank lists the US dollar at 48.7499 lira for forex buying and 48.8377 lira for forex selling.

Source: TCMBRecord date: Sep 23, 2026

And gold, per gram?

Checked Turkpidyaturkey-data · gold · gram

BigPara quotes 24 karat gold at 6,693.17 lira (buy) and 6,694.12 lira (sell) per gram, a change of −0.57%.

Source: BigParaPrice date: Sep 24, 2026

Install

$ claude mcp add turkey-data -- npx -y turkey-data-mcp

Turkpidya’s data pipeline from turkpidya.com/developers. Responses are real, trimmed samples from Sep 24, 2026. The assistant conversation is illustrative and uses the sample /fx/USD and /gold responses.

Live tools and their sources

Every number names where it came from.

Six of the 18 free live-data tools, as they looked on September 24, 2026. The figures move through the day, so open a tool for today’s numbers.

See the developer docs

01 / 06

Türkiye right now

Prayer times, the last 24 hours of earthquakes, exchange rates, gold and fuel on one homepage board. Each card names its source.

Sources across the tools

TCMB
BigPara
EPDK
OPET
AFAD
Kandilli Observatory
Diyanet

Open the homepage

02 / 06

Gold prices

Gram and coin prices, with the coins drawn to scale.

Source: BigPara market data and TCMB
Updates: Every few minutes
Covers: Gram gold (24K) and the Çeyrek, Yarım, Tam, Cumhuriyet and Ata coins

Open the tool

03 / 06

Fuel prices

Petrol and diesel prices across Turkey’s 81 provinces.

Source: EPDK, the energy regulator, and OPET
History: Every price change since 2015
In context: A tank’s cost in dollars, gold and minutes of minimum-wage work

Open the tool

04 / 06

Earthquake monitor

Every earthquake, as it happens. The map and the list update themselves, and quakes at sea and across the border are included.

Source: AFAD and Kandilli Observatory
Updates: Every few minutes, from AFAD’s catalogue
Filters: Period and magnitude

Open the tool

05 / 06

Exchange rates

Central bank rates for the lira and 21 currencies, with a converter that switches between transfer and cash rates.

Source: TCMB, the central bank
History: Rates back to 2005

Open the tool

06 / 06

Prayer times

Diyanet’s official times for all 81 provinces, with a countdown to the next prayer.

Source: The Diyanet method
Views: Month, year and Ramadan

Open the tool

Deliverables

Every output had a job.

Clarify the offer, create demand, remove friction or make performance easier to measure.

Publishing system

Category architecture
Article templates
Internal-link rules

Search and localization

17 language editions
Search intent mapping
Technical SEO

Live data

Exchange, gold and fuel tools
Prayer times and earthquake monitor
Official-source pipelines

Machine-readable access

Public JSON API
MCP server
Structured data

Outcome

What’s live today.

Visit turkpidya.com

3,400+ guides managed through one publishing system.
17 live language editions, including right-to-left Arabic, Persian and Hebrew.
18 free live-data tools, each naming its official source.
Recognition from TRT World and an independent Wikipedia entry.

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Turkpidya: a 17-language reference platform, built to scale

How we approached it.

Information architecture

Multilingual publishing

Live data layer

AI access

17 editions from one system.

Built to be cited, not just read.

Every number names where it came from.

Türkiye right now

Gold prices

Fuel prices

Earthquake monitor

Exchange rates

Prayer times

Every output had a job.

Publishing system

Search and localization

Live data

Machine-readable access

What’s live today.

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