About Volkan Güvenç
Volkan Güvenç founded Alafranga Language Solutions in Istanbul in September 2002. He continues to direct the agency from London, where it has been registered since 2025 as Alafranga Europe Ltd.

Before starting the agency, he spent nearly a decade working across three industries that shaped the kind of translation work Alafranga would go on to do. He worked as a military translator at the Turkish General Staff's Central Translation Office, where he handled classified documentation across Turkish and English. He then moved into banking at WestLB Westdeutsche Landesbank in Istanbul, followed by a role in technical reporting and editorial work at the Association of Insurance and Reinsurance — where he edited the sector's professional publication, Birlikten.

That background — military translation, finance, technical reporting — was not a detour. It became the operational foundation of the agency: a bias toward regulated, high-stakes content, and a preference for translators who understand the subject matter, not just the language.