Cenk Yalavac
Founder & CEO
Founded El Turco in 2016. Leads strategy, partnerships and the AI data practice.
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The founder, project managers and vendor manager who run your projects, backed by 700+ vetted native linguists and by Hub and Dispatch, our in-house middleware and business management system.
Core team.
The people who run translation, localization and AI data projects for regional markets, from first brief to final delivery.
Selen Özgür Eyüboğlu
Vendor Manager
Runs our linguist network: recruiting, vetting and matching regional experts to projects.
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Doğa Sindar Şahin
Project Manager
Manages client projects end to end, from kickoff to delivery.
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Önder Eroğlu
Senior Project Manager
Leads our most complex multi-language projects and client programs.
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Ezgi Polat
Project Manager
Manages localization projects with a focus on QA and on-time delivery.
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Ceyda Yıldız
Junior Project Coordinator
Supports project coordination and delivery across our client accounts.
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We like hearing from people who love languages, technology and working across cultures.
Working together.
Beyond the core team.
We are backed by a network of 700+ vetted linguists, subject matter experts and AI data specialists across the region.
- 700+ linguists
- Native speakers working in translation, localization and specialized domains, with a second linguist on every job.
- Subject matter experts
- Legal, medical, technical and financial specialists who review specialized content.
- 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.
Work with this team.
Tell us your languages, tools and volumes. A project manager replies with questions or a scoped quote, and LSPs can start with a free 300-word test translation.