- TEP services
- Transcreation
- MTPE
- Software localization
- Continuous localization
- Website localization
Your specialist vendor from the Balkans to Central Asia
Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Balkan, Eastern European and Turkic languages, delivered inside your vendor portal and CAT tools. A vendor to global LSPs since 2017.
300
words, free of charge
Free test translation.
Send us a sample of up to 300 words in any of our language pairs and see the quality before you onboard us as a vendor.
- First year as a vendor to global LSPs
- 2017
- Words delivered since 2020
- 75M+
- Localization tasks a year
- 100K+
- Regional languages
- 19
One regional vendor instead of many.
One vendor for Türkiye, the Middle East, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia: one account manager, one set of quality steps and one invoice instead of a separate supplier per country. When an end client adds markets, the same team adds the languages. For programs we already run, we also staff adjacent languages such as Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian and Georgian.
Native linguists work in your CAT tools under ISO 17100 and ISO 18587, with in-house project management and a second linguist on every delivery.
- 19 core languages
- Turkish, Arabic (MSA and regional dialects), Persian, Kurdish, Azerbaijani, Balkan, Eastern European and Turkic languages, with adjacent Central European languages for existing programs.
- Offers accepted without waiting for a person
- Hub, our own middleware, picks up offers from your vendor portal, accepts them by rules agreed with you and sets them up as projects without manual steps.
- 100K+ tasks per year
- Continuous programs and one-off projects, from small urgent updates to large releases, with 75M+ words delivered since 2020.
- Your tool stack
- We work in RWS Trados, Passolo, Phrase, memoQ, Smartling, Lokalise, XTM, Smartcat, Wordbee, Across, STAR Transit, Wordfast, Crowdin, Transifex and other CAT tools and TMS platforms your projects run on, connecting through your vendor portal, API or file exchange.
- Linguistic quality assessment
- LQA services with a documented methodology for vendor evaluation and internal reviews. By language: Arabic LQA and Turkish LQA. Post-editing under ISO 18587: Turkish MTPE and Arabic MTPE.
- Automated QA on every delivery
- Automated checks on every file: deterministic rules, an AI judge on risky segments and a human sign-off. Xbench and Verifika supported on request.
Programs we deliver for LSPs.
Long-running programs for global brands, delivered as a vendor inside our LSP partners' workflows.
- Global e-commerce and cloud platform
- Turkish and Arabic since 2020 across retail, devices, cloud and advertising content, through more than one LSP partner.
- Global consumer technology brand
- Turkish and Arabic help, UI and support content since 2020, delivered in the LSP's own tools.
- Global messaging app
- Turkish on a continuous program since 2020.
- Streaming service, studio content
- Turkish production and technical documentation from 2021 to 2024.
- AI assistant data
- Human evaluation, golden samples and Arabic dialect data for a consumer AI assistant.
End-client names withheld under NDA. References available on request.
The team and tools behind the numbers.
One in-house project management and QA team, backed by 700+ approved native linguists and by software we run ourselves.
Meet the team- 100K+ tasks a year
- 100K+ localization tasks a year and 75M+ words delivered since 2020, run by this team as a vendor to global LSPs since 2017.
- Our own software
- Hub, our in-house middleware, accepts offers from LSP vendor portals by agreed rules. Dispatch, our business management system, handles resource allocation and progress tracking, so project managers spend their time on linguists and quality.
- Linguists we train ourselves
- Localization Ninja, our in-house talent development bootcamp, trains people starting a career in localization, with sessions led by working project managers, linguists and QA specialists.
Why LSPs work with El Turco.
- A vendor to global LSPs since 2017, with 75M+ words delivered since 2020
- Certified to ISO 17100, ISO 18587, ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001
- One account manager and one invoice for all 19 core languages
- Offers from your vendor portal picked up by Hub and accepted by rules agreed with you
- A free test translation of up to 300 words before you onboard us
- Per-word, hourly or project-based pricing, quoted after scoping
- Turnaround is agreed at scoping, with a 24-hour option for small urgent updates
- References, certificate copies, capabilities deck and rate card under NDA on request
See our certifications and the translation process we follow on every job.
Request the vendor pack.
One request for what vendor managers ask for during qualification, sent under NDA.
Request the vendor pack- References from LSP partners, under NDA
- Copies of our ISO 17100, ISO 18587, ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001 certificates
- Capabilities deck
- Rate card for your language pairs
- Language pairs: 19 core target languages from English, German, French, Chinese, Turkish and Arabic, plus into English from each
- The CAT tools, TMS platforms and vendor portals we work in
- How our QA works: second linguist, our automated QA and LQA
Need one document only? Rate card, ISO certificate copies or references under NDA.
“Working with El Turco has been a seamless experience. Their reliability, deep understanding of e-commerce localization, and exceptional communication make them a standout team.”
19 regional languages.
Native linguists with subject matter expertise across every language we cover. Source languages: English, German, French, Chinese, Turkish and Arabic. Target languages: all 19 below, plus into English from each.
Türkiye
Balkans and Eastern Europe
Caucasus and Central Asia
Each language has its own page under Languages, and the Balkan languages share one page. Vendor managers can also read the regional vendor checklist for LSPs and our other guides.
Services for LSPs.
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Quality assurance
- Automated QA
- LQA services
- Xbench and Verifika on request
- Custom QA rules
- ISO 17100 compliance
- Multi-tier review
- Audio data collection
- Text annotation
- RLHF
- Dataset creation
- Quality evaluation
Subject areas: gaming, e-commerce, technology, life sciences and finance. Game, e-commerce and software localization and AI training data are also described by language.
Integration options
See how we connect through Hub, our in-house middleware, and the vendor portals and CAT tools your workflows use.
FAQ
Questions from vendor managers.
How day-to-day work with El Turco runs once an LSP has onboarded us as a regional vendor. More answers in the FAQ: for LSPs and security and compliance.
How does an LSP send jobs to El Turco?
LSPs send jobs to El Turco through their own vendor portal, through their TMS by API or by file exchange. For continuous programs, Hub, our in-house middleware, connects the LSP vendor portal or TMS with Dispatch, our business management system, so offers are accepted and projects created without manual handoffs. Setup time depends on the portal or TMS and is confirmed at onboarding.
Does El Turco follow the LSP's style guides and QA requirements?
Yes. El Turco linguists work to the style guides, glossaries and QA checklists of the LSP and its end client. Custom QA rules can be added to our automated QA, so client-specific checks run on every delivery. Xbench or Verifika reports can be supplied when the LSP requires them, and LQA results can follow the LSP's own error typology.
Does El Turco take MTPE jobs from LSPs?
Yes. El Turco accepts MTPE jobs from LSPs and runs them under ISO 18587:2017, the standard for post-editing machine translation output. Post-editors work to the agreed quality level in the LSP CAT tool or portal. MTPE jobs pass through our automated QA and a human sign-off like every other delivery. The LSP can request LQA sampling on top.
How are linguist queries handled on LSP projects?
Linguist queries on El Turco projects are collected by the project manager and sent to the LSP in one batch, in the query sheet or portal format the LSP uses. Answers are shared with every linguist on the job and added to the project notes or glossary. Later jobs for the same end client then start from the points already resolved.
Can El Turco deliver several regional languages on one LSP job?
Yes. An LSP can place one multi-language job with El Turco, for example Turkish, Arabic, Serbian and Kazakh. Every target language then comes back from one team. One project manager schedules all languages, applies the same QA steps and confirms a delivery date for each. The LSP then has a single contact instead of coordinating separate single-language suppliers.
Which languages can El Turco cover beyond its 19 core languages?
Our 19 core languages run on our own approved linguist network. For programs we already deliver, we also staff adjacent languages such as Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian and Georgian, with the same project management and QA steps. Tell us the language list and we confirm coverage before onboarding.
Can El Turco take over a language from another vendor mid-program?
Yes. We import the translation memory, glossary, style guide and query history, run a short LQA on recent deliveries and agree the takeover date with the LSP. The same project manager then runs the language alongside the rest of the program, so the end client sees no break in delivery.
Add one regional vendor.
Tell us which language pairs, tools and volumes you work with. A project manager comes back with capacity, onboarding steps and a rate card.
Talk to a project manager Meet the team
A project manager reads your brief, usually the same working day.