Turkish & Multilingual Technical Translation Agency
For content where a mistranslation has consequences: machinery, contracts, medical devices, media
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We started in Istanbul in 2002 as a small agency offering Turkish translation services for official documents and patents. Technical, legal, medical and media content became the core of our work, and every other language was added when a client needed it.
Turkish is still at the heart of the business. Many clients who first came to us for Turkish now use us for their other languages too, and our specialist network covers more than 40 languages, including English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Arabic. Each project goes to specialists who work in that field, with terminology agreed at the start and kept in the translation memory and glossary.
For companies setting up AI translation in-house, we offer an AI translation audit, with build and run packages to follow.
Our workflow was certified to EN 15038:2006 by Bureau Veritas in 2012, the standard later reissued as ISO 17100:2015, and today we operate to ISO 17100:2015. Since 2007 we have been an accredited member of the ATC (Association of Translation Companies), which vets its members' finances, contracts and quality management before admission. We are registered in London as Alafranga Europe Ltd and work with clients across Europe.
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 The numbers behind our work We have been translating since 2002. Since 2009, every project has been recorded in ]Project Open[, the project management system we run on our own servers in the EU. The figures below come from that database, as of August 2026. Work before 2009 is not included because it was not tracked in the same system.
ISO 17100:2015 β ATC and EUATC member since 2007.
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Send the file, the language pair, and your deadline. We will come back with a price, a delivery date, and which workflow we recommend for that content. You can start with a single document and expand from there. We reply within 1 working hour |
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Planning to bring AI into your own translation work?
Before choosing a tool, decide which content AI can draft and which has to stay human. Our AI translation audit tests this on your own files, before you commit to a workflow. β How the audit works |
Some of our clients have been with us for over a decade
Whether handling highly specialized engineering manuals, complex patent specifications, or regulated medical device documentation, we understand that technical accuracy is a matter of operational compliance. That is why global automotive leaders, industrial manufacturers, and technology pioneers trust our turkish technical translation services year after year.
Technical Translation Services for Engineering
Engineering documentation has structural rules such as section hierarchies, controlled terminology, diagrams that must align with translated text, units that follow regional conventions. Technical translation is precision under structural constraint, not paraphrase.
| We translate installation manuals, technical specifications, CE compliance documents, datasheets, machinery catalogues, and maintenance procedures for manufacturers in energy, industrial equipment, automation, and electronic systems. β Learn more about multilingual technical translation services or Turkish only? |
Legal Translation Services for Contracts
In legal work, the translation carries legal effect. What moves across is not individual words but doctrinal categories that shift through statutes, regulator practice, and case law. Turkish data protection and contract law have changed substantially since 2016.
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We translate contracts, terms of service, compliance materials, regulatory filings, KVKK documentation (the Turkish data protection law), court submissions, and corporate governance texts for law firms and in-house legal teams.
β Learn more about multilingual legal translation services or Turkish only? |
Medical Translation Services for Devices & Trials
A device sold in Turkey needs Turkish instructions for use and Turkish labelling. The Turkish medical device regulation mirrors MDR and IVDR, but submission runs through TΔ°TCK, the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency, and terminology follows its conventions rather than generic medical vocabulary.
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We translate instructions for use, labelling, technical files, clinical trial protocols, informed consent forms, and patient information leaflets for device manufacturers, CROs, and regulatory teams.
β Learn more about multilingual translation services or Turkish only? |
Localization Services for Ongoing Programs
A one-off translation ends when the file is delivered. A program does not: the same product gets revised, the same strings come back changed, and terminology has to hold across languages and across years. That is a different kind of work, and it is where most of our long relationships sit.
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We have run a horticulture software and documentation program across 14 languages since 2011, and a personal protective equipment documentation program in parallel since 2012, now past 2.1 million words. Both are still active.
β Learn more about multilingual localization services or Turkish only? |
Professional Translation Services since 2002
2002 Founded as Turkish Translation Company in Istanbul as a Turkish technical translation office β 2006 Expanded to Greek, Arabic, Balkan and Turkic languages β 2007 Joined ATC/EUATC Β· First in Turkey to adopt ]Project Open[ β 2012 ISO certified, audited
by Bureau Veritas β 2012 Began managing multilingual programs in 40+ languages β 2018
Launched MTPE and expanded media localization β 2021 Delivered subtitle projects for Disney+ and
Fox TV β 2025 Relocated international operations to the UK
| Every service line started with a client request Every service line started with a client request
Turkish technical translation in 2002. Subtitling when a broadcaster needed it. Post-editing when clients began sending machine output for review. None of it came from a market report saying the category was growing.
That is a slower way to build an agency. It is also why Hoogendoorn has worked with us since 2010.
From Istanbul 2002 to London 2025 |
Web & App Localization for Software Interfaces
Software localization is not document translation, it works inside resource files, accounts for string length variation, handles right-to-left edge cases for Arabic and Hebrew, and respects placeholder conventions that must survive every build. Turkish character behavior, sentence structure, and UI density differ from source languages.
| We localize websites, mobile applications, software interfaces, in-app help, user-facing error messages, marketing landing pages, and CMS-driven content for product teams and SaaS companies. β Learn more about Multilingual Localization Services or Turkish only? |
Media Translation for Subtitles, Scripts, and AV Content
Media translation works within constraints text alone does not: reading-speed limits for subtitles, lip-sync requirements for dubbing scripts, cultural register that must match tone without breaking timing.
| We translate subtitles, dubbing scripts, voiceover scripts, closed captions, episode-by-episode TV series, documentaries, corporate video content, and streaming platform materials. β Learn more about Turkish media translation |
