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I've been working as a freelance translator since 2019. My language pairs are English-Turkish and Russian-Turkish.

I lived in USA for 10 years (studied Language + MS + PhD) and I also have a huge translation experience in almost all areas (doing translations for more than 10 years). Please take a look at my brief CV (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekrem-dundar-08181416) and please let me know if I can be of help for your translation needs. If you are interested, please get back to me so that I can e-mail you my detailed CV.

I have been working as a professional translator since sophomore class. After having graduated from Bilkent University's Translation and Interpretation Department in 2002, I worked in several sectors including media and advertisement, while also continuing my profession as a freelancer. For 4 years from early 2003 to 2007, I served as Foreign News and Health Page Editor in national newspaper Tercüman. In the meanwhile, for six issues I served as editor in chief for a monthly alternative health magazine called Bioenergy & Vitamins. Also in 2003, I established my own publishing and music production company, Arkaplan, together with my childhood friends. With Arkaplan we produced several music albums and published more than 10 books. One of the books (ISBN No: 9756128046) was my own title, covering my criticisms -as a young foreign news editor- on the history of Turkish conservative movement. In 2007, I decided to leave media sector and refocused on my original profession in linguistics. I started as Project Manager in Avrasya Translation, and after having gained some very valuable experience on clients, projects and translation tools I decided to continue as a full time freelance translator. Since November 2008, I have been offering highly appreciated translation and localization services to reputable international clients from UK, US, Russia, South Korea, Germany, Hungary, Singapore, and Turkey for brands and organizations including Google, Samsung, Apple, Covidien, Sony, Symantec, Electronic Arts, ABBYY Fine Reader, Kaspersky, HP, TicToc App, Haas, International Paper, Toro, LSI (Language Studies International), Esko, Xaar, Xerox, Marriott Hotels, Acıbadem Hospitals, Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, General Electronics, European Union, World Health Organization, Opel, Citroen, Subaru, GAP, H&M, Mango, Nike, etc. As an empathetic professional seeing things from both a project manager’s and a translator’s points of view, my essential principles are to reply all client emails within an hour from receipt, and to always offer the best results for optimum price as fast as possible. My mission is to simply help people truly understand each other, and my vision is to expand my client base with more worldwide companies and build robust and long-lived professional relationships.

Having studied in the departments of English Language Teaching & French Language and Literature at leading universities in Turkey, I have been working now for 9 years as a certified English & French translator in almost every field of translation.

After working in different industries for over 10 years, I've started working as a freelance translator seven years ago. I'm currently a sworn translator with extensive experience in the translation of business/finance, legal, and academic documents including business procedures/processes/reports, agreements, research papers, website content, instruction manuals etc. in areas such as banking, oil/energy, construction/architecture, IT, etc.. My past work experience gives me a great advantage in clearly understanding the content and context of a material and then translating/interpreting it accurately and effectively, but I also always try to improve my skills further and keep myself up to date with the latest developments in my industry. So I'd be happy to work with you and deliver high-quality translations on time for you. Looking forward to hearing from you!

I'm graduated in translation and interpreting (Russian-Bulgarian and Turkish) at university.

Translator (English/Turkish/Russian) Delivered speech at UN headquarters in NYC, studied in the best universities of Russia (SPbGU) and Turkey (İstanbul University), worked with major clients from Russia (Moscow Zaryadye, Eksmo Publishing House, Lengiproneftehim Design Institute etc.), Turkey (İçtaş İnşaat, Dilmenler) and Europe (TMA Method, Huntsman). CPE, TYS and TKT certificates.

A language enthusiast with a BA in Translation Studies and an Experienced Translator & Copyeditor (EN<>TR)

My Freelance Translator Journey Before putting an end to my career as an officer in the Army I had chance of doing great volume of translation works at the highest HQ of Army for 7 years from English to my native language, Turkish, in the area of military, security, defense, international security, arms control, disarmament, peacekeeping operations, peace support operations and crisis management. Besides that experience as a translator I worked at United Nations Lebanon mission (UNIFIL) Operations Center which is one the most important and longest missions of United Nations in the context of peacekeeping that gave me priceless experience on crisis management, peacekeeping, peace support and international security and its of course terminology. Not only this honorable mission did gave me experience but also I organised many events and attended at many meetings, workshops, seminars, events and courses in the area of disarmament and arms control in United Nations, OSCE and NATO.

I am a native Turkish speaker and a certified translator/interpreter with over 10 years of experience in translation, interpreting and proofreading. I have studied and lived in English speaking countries for many years. I started working as a full-time sworn in-house translator in 2007 and worked continuously for the the same translation/localization agency for 10 years until March 2017. I have literally been involved in every aspect of translation and localization industry and had the chance to develop my skills and understanding in various fields of translation profession, notably technical, legal, business and marketing fields as a result of regular daily translation assignments (ranging from 2000 to 4000 words) over the last decade. I may not be a graduate of language and translation studies (my background includes Political Science and Sociology) but I firmly believe that what I lack in formal training I more than make up for with 10 years of daily on-the-job experience.

Bachelor’s degree from the Law School of Istanbul University. Master’s degree from the Law School of the University of Exeter. Academic English course at Kaplan International in the USA, Chicago. Translation experience since 2007. More than 400 Smartcat projects and 800 non-Smartcat projects. More than 2.2 M words via Smartcat and nearly 5 M words out of Smartcat 9.9 out of 10 stars in 30 reviews of 7 different providers. 100% customer satisfaction in Smartcat. Competent in using SDL Trados, memoQ, and many other online/offline CAT tools. Author of two Turkish books; https://www.seckin.com.tr/browser/fa/798871535/kitap/%C4%B0smail%20Aksel Author of an English booklet about Turkish legal order; https://rm.coe.int/turkish-judicial-system-bodies-duties-and-officials-by-ismail-aksel-ju/168078f25f Main fields; - Laws, - Contracts, - Education materials, - Insurance - Official documents, - Manuals, - Valuation reports.