Native Turkish language professional with two decades' experience in marketing, literature, social sciences, software, and medicine.

See below, then talk to me. And I will talk for you to the Turkish speaker in Turkey and Europe:

Literary Translation
Published more than 40 book translations since 1991 in history, politics, psychology, as well as fiction (including works by two Nobel nominees, Philip Roth and Margaret Atwood), and co-translated and edited a dictionary on cyberculture.

Latest publication is the "Selected Provocations" of Ariel Dorfman: Other Septembers, Many Americas.




Marketing Adaptation
Translation of advertisement and marketing texts, as well as slogan and copy adaptation and regular brandname assessment in a wide array of areas, such as pharmaceuticals, automotive, telecommunications, home electronics and entertainment. Have been focusing on IT marketing for the last two years.
Marketing brochures (over 100,000 words), copy and slogan adaptation, tagline evaluation for the automotive industry; adaptation of copy, slogan and TV commercials for cellular/mobile telecommunications (around 60,000 words)
Pharmaceuticals sales-training workshop manuals (over 40,000 words); marketing translations and product name evaluation for personal and household hygiene products
Translation and proofreading of marketing surveys and questionnaires for various industries (oil, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, toys) and government agencies (health care, prison administration, immigration).
Localization
Strong background in software localization with in-house work for IBM and SAP in the 1990s. Full literacy of Windows and Oracle terminologies.
Workforce organization software (more than 100,000 words of translation and proofreading, followed by online review and QA in a several-month-long project); dealership management package for an automotive brand
Menu strings, user interfaces, and help files for GSM and digital home electronics products
Website localization* in the fields of international trade, textile, yachting, photography (proofreader), navigation systems, dating, media, business networking (proofreader & tester), online music community, gastronomy, IT (information technology) ...

* Worked as translator, unless stated otherwise.
Medical Translation
Editorship background dating back to 1990s with three medical journals published by a pharmaceuticals-affiliated company in Istanbul in the fields of internal medicine, pediatrics, and infectious diseases. Fields of experience include psychiatry, pediatrics, maternal care, general health care, and pharmaceutics.
Online test for Hepatitis C risk assessment, and regular translation of health brochures and newsletters targeting lay readership
Manuals for radiation treatment planning and diagnostic devices (about 50,000 words); localization of an interactive voice response system (IVRS) for treatment planning and improving patient compliance
Laboratory documents for immunoassay test kits - about 35,000 words
Psychiatric expert reports for the UK courts regarding child-custody litigation



















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