Company Profile

From Local to Global

Alafranga Language Solutions (ALS) was founded in 2002 to provide professional Turkish translation services only with a particular focus on technical and legal translation requirements. For the last 17 years, a lot has changed. 

Today, the technological base and network of ALS are perfectly adapted to incorporating 40+ languages to the capacity considering flexible demands from private companies, organizations, NGOs and other global language service providers: 

   - human translation, 
   - localization, 
   - machine translation, 
   - interpretation,
   - transcription,
   - desktop publishing and,
   - subtitling.

mainly to the clients headquartered in NewYork, London, Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Rotterdam, Madrid, Rome, Tokyo, Beijing, Moscow, Washington, California, Chicago, Toronto, Sydney, Dubai and Istanbul.

Our Istanbul office specializes in Turkish and neighboring languages.

Our mission

We walk with our clients as they are adapting to the ever-changing business climate. As a result of continuous efforts, our technological standing is at the forefront. Behind ALS is a great team, and we will be happy to incorporate our internal knowledge accumulation into your demanding projects.

Global vendor network

The private global vendor network has evolved along with the thousands of projects accomplished so far. Our authorized project managers are able to get access to a private network of 5,100+ language consultants and full archive related to the previous projects. 

Milestones

2002 - Alafranga Language Solutions (ALS) founded by Mr. Guvenc in 2002 nearby 3rd. Notary Public in Istanbul, Turkey as a local language service provider. Originally, our main focus was offering Turkish language solutions to the local customers.  

2005 - ALS started to sign contracts with local and foreign companies headquartered in Turkey. 

2006 - ALS begins transformation process to extend its presence and outreach to global markets.  ALS has gradually extended the included language range to support the languages of culturally and geographically neighbouring countries. 

2007 - ALS became an overseas member of Association of Translation Companies (ATC) based in the U.K. ALS adopted ]Project Open[ in order to automate and integrate all management operations and we are proud to be the first translation company in Turkey that started using ]Project Open[. 

2011 - ALS service quality is audited by Bureau Veritas for certification of European Quality Standard for translation services and officially entitled to have the certificate of EN 15038:2006. 

2012 - ALS formed a sister company, Alafranga Language Solutions FZE (ALS Int.) registered in RAK nearby Dubai in U.A.E. 

2015 - ALS formed a game localization team that is specialized in game localization projects. 

2018 - ALS has started MTPE projects and, also extented its capacity in subtitling and video translations. In April of 2018, our EN 15038:2006 is converted to ISO:17100.