Verdict
tubitak.gov.tr appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Official website of TÜBİTAK (Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu) containing institutional information, research units, news, program and grant announcements, events, and contact details. No commercial/financial solicitation or credential harvesting detected. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 30 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 19975000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by TUBITAK Kamu SM SSL Sertifika Hizmet Saglayicisi - Surum 3 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 1997.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website is the official institutional portal of TÜBİTAK, Türkiye’s Scientific and Technological Research Council, presenting organizational information, research activities, news, grants, scholarships, programs, events, and public contact channels. Its apparent purpose is to provide government-funded scientific and technology support rather than commercial products or financial services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site presents a coherent public-institution identity across its homepage and institutional sections, with no detected phishing, brand-impersonation, credential-harvesting, or commercial solicitation indicators. The available reputation evidence is clean, and the domain demonstrates sustained historical continuity consistent with an established institutional website. Identity is apparently legitimate and evidence-consistent, but the real-world operator connection is not independently verified by this assessment.
- The homepage identifies TÜBİTAK as Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu and provides institutional, research, program, grant, scholarship, news, and contact content.
- The domain was registered in 1999 and is approximately 27.51 years old.
- Historical records show 5,000 archive snapshots from 1997 through 2024, covering 28 tracked years.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no blacklist hit; the site’s page analysis reported no red flags.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The institutional and legal sections provide substantive governance material, including information about the organization, management board, senior leadership, legislation, organizational structure, strategy documents, financial tables, policies, and service inventories. The site describes a government research and technology-support function rather than a regulated financial or commercial service, and no financial license claim or license number is presented. That absence is a regulatory-disclosure point to document rather than evidence of a scam. A separate broker-reputation dataset produced no match, which is contextual support only and not a legal or regulatory determination.
- The institutional navigation includes About, management, legislation, organization chart, strategy documents, financial tables, policies, and service-inventory pages.
- The hosting infrastructure is served from AS8517, ULAKNET – National Academic Network and Information Center, TR.
- The site’s TLS certificate uses OV validation, was issued by TUBİTAK Kamu SM SSL Sertifika Hizmet Saglayıcısı – Surum 3, and is valid through 2026-11-14.
What to Verify Next
For sensitive interactions, independently confirm that the intended service is the official TÜBİTAK institution through an authoritative government directory or an offline contact route already known to the organization. Where a program involves applications, grants, or personal information, confirm the applicable program terms, data-use provisions, and contact channels before submission. If any payment or account-related workflow is introduced, perform the ordinary merchant-identity, return-policy, and payment-protection checks before providing credentials or payment details.
- The homepage provides institutional navigation to program, grant, scholarship, announcement, and contact sections.
- The contact section is linked from the site’s primary navigation and is accompanied by five social-platform links.
- Page and behavior analysis found no login form, sensitive form, hidden form, untrusted destination, wallet interaction, or external form submission.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, and the available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate public-sector website. The site’s institutional purpose, content coherence, historical continuity, technical controls, and clean reputation converge positively, while operator identity remains likely rather than independently proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to a single apparent origin on ULAKNET infrastructure in Türkiye, with no CDN or WAF detected. Its OV TLS certificate provides an important transport-security control, although the absence of an identified edge-protection layer means the hosting environment itself provides the primary infrastructure exposure profile.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary informational use is proportionate; before any credential or payment interaction, independent confirmation of the relevant service terms and payment protections remains appropriate.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-13 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 80% |
- Identity verified on page
- Trusted social count=5
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of tubitak.gov.tr.
- The request stayed on tubitak.gov.tr. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by 83.251. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2029-02-15. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1997-02-04. Clear
- It is hosted on ULAKNET, from a server in TR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
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| Hosting | ULAKNET - National Academic Network and Information Center, TR |
| Country | TR |
| Server IP | 193.140.80.230 |
| Name servers | ns1.tubitak.gov.tr 193.140.80.8 ns2.tubitak.gov.tr 193.140.80.9 ns.uekae.tubitak.gov.tr 193.140.74.3 ns1.ulakbim.gov.tr 193.140.83.251 |
| SSL issuer | TUBITAK Kamu SM SSL Sertifika Hizmet Saglayicisi - Surum 3 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-14 |
| Domain age | 29.52 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2029-02-15 |
| Archive first seen | 1997-02-04 |
| Archive snapshots | 5000 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about tubitak.gov.tr at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.