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A Turkish translation company, since 2002

Founder-led, registered in London, Turkish at the core

Alafranga was founded in Istanbul in 2002 and is registered in London as Alafranga Europe Ltd. We translate technical, legal, medical and media content, with Turkish at the core and 40+ languages through a specialist network built project by project. We work with translation agencies and with companies directly, across Europe.

Not a marketplace and not a translation app. A team with a direct stake in the quality of every delivery.


▮Company Facts

Legal name Alafranga Europe Ltd, registered in England and Wales, Company No. 16711244
Registered address 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom
Founded 2002, Istanbul
Founder and director Volkan Güvenç
Languages Turkish at the core, 40+ languages through a specialist network
Work Technical, legal, medical and media translation, for translation agencies and companies directly
Memberships Association of Translation Companies (ATC) and European Union of Associations of Translation Companies (EUATC), since 2007
Quality standard Operates to ISO 17100:2015. Certified to EN 15038:2006 by Bureau Veritas in 2012
 

▮Questions About Alafranga

  • Who founded Alafranga? Alafranga was founded by Volkan Güvenç in Istanbul in 2002. The company remains founder-led and owner-operated. Strategic direction, quality oversight and client relationships are managed directly by the founder. read more

  • Where is Alafranga based? Alafranga is registered in London as Alafranga Europe Ltd, 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ, Company No. 16711244. The company was founded in Istanbul in 2002 and the core team works across the UK and Turkey. read more

  • How long has Alafranga been operating? Alafranga has been active since 2002 in technical, legal, medical and media translation. It is a specialist Turkish translation company that has built its workflows around complex, high-stakes content since before neural machine translation existed. read more

  • Is Alafranga ISO 17100 certified? Alafranga's translation workflow was certified to EN 15038:2006 by Bureau Veritas in 2012, the standard later reissued as ISO 17100:2015. Today the company operates to ISO 17100:2015: its workflows, quality controls and project management processes follow the requirements of the standard.

  • How large is the Alafranga translator network? Since 2009, 484 specialists have completed paid work for Alafranga, each with a purchase order history in its ]Project Open[ project management system, across 6,135 projects (August 2026). Linguists are assessed through real work: subject-matter expertise, CAT tool proficiency, terminology handling and delivery performance. read more

  • What industries does Alafranga specialise in? Alafranga focuses on sectors where terminology precision is non-negotiable: industrial manufacturing, energy and power systems, automotive, legal and compliance, medical and life sciences, software and technology, and media and entertainment. Selected projects are described on its case study pages. read more

  • Does Alafranga work with other translation agencies as a subcontractor? Yes. More than half of Alafranga's Turkish translation work comes from other translation agencies. Alafranga works as a white-label partner inside the client agency's tools, under its brand, with an NDA as standard. It works natively in memoQ and Trados, with a workflow that operates to ISO 17100:2015. read more


Our Story Since 2002 
From a specialist translation desk in Istanbul to a London-registered agency: more than two decades of projects, partnerships and language pairs.

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