Alafranga was founded in Istanbul in 2002 — one of the major commercial and translation hubs connecting European, Middle Eastern, and Central Asian markets. The company relocated its legal headquarters to London to be closer to its European client base, operating under UK jurisdiction with SEPA-enabled payments and full GDPR compliance.

Project coordination, linguist management, and quality oversight are handled by our core team, working across the UK and Turkey. Day-to-day client communication is managed from both locations.

 

Our translator network is not a marketplace or a directory. It is the outcome of 23 years of operational history — built project by project, language pair by language pair, industry by industry.

2,000+ vetted specialists across Turkish, German, French, Italian, Arabic, Greek, Polish, Romanian, Dutch, and further languages. Every linguist has been assessed through real work — subject-matter expertise, CAT tool proficiency, terminology handling, and delivery performance tracked and maintained by our project managers.

▮Vendor Network Footprint

Our translator network spans the regions where our clients operate and where demand for our core language pairs is strongest:

• Europe — Western, Central and Eastern European languages
• Turkey & Turkic Region — Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Kazakh, Turkmen
• Middle East & North Africa — Arabic, Persian, Kurdish, Hebrew
• South & East Asia — on request through specialist network

▮How We Serve European Clients
Our London registration means straightforward contracting for European clients — UK jurisdiction, SEPA-enabled payments, GDPR compliance as standard. For LSPs and corporate clients managing multilingual programmes, we operate as a white-label partner: inside your tools, under your brand, invisible to your end client.

For clients in regulated industries — industrial, legal, medical — our ISO 17100 certification, audited by Bureau Veritas, provides the compliance assurance that vendor onboarding processes require.