Guides for Localization Buyers
How to scope, compare and run translation, localization and AI data projects in Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Balkan and Turkic languages. Written for the people who sign off the work, not for linguists.
- Languages
- 19
- Languages
- Vetted Native Linguists
- 700+
- Vetted Native Linguists
- Localization Tasks / Year
- 100K+
- Localization Tasks / Year
- Founded
- 2016
- Founded
El Turco guides are decision documents for enterprises, language service providers and AI teams buying work in regional languages. Each one gives a direct answer first, then the steps, the trade-offs and a short FAQ, drawing on our production experience in Istanbul since 2016.
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Product managers and designers
Arabic dialects and right-to-left layout: a localization primer for product teams
How product managers and designers choose between MSA and Arabic dialects and prepare a mirrored right-to-left interface for launch.
SaaS product and engineering teams
Continuous localization for SaaS products in Turkish, Arabic and Balkan languages
A practical guide for SaaS teams shipping every sprint into Turkish, Arabic and Balkan languages without breaking strings or release dates.
E-commerce and marketplace teams
E-commerce localization playbook for Türkiye, MENA and the Balkans
Content workflows, market priorities and a storefront launch checklist for e-commerce teams selling in Türkiye, MENA and the Balkans.
Game publishers and producers
Game localization checklist for MENA and Türkiye
A pre-launch checklist for game publishers and producers taking a title into Arabic-speaking markets and Türkiye.
Enterprise localization managers
How to choose a localization vendor for Turkish, Arabic and Balkan markets
Decision criteria, vendor models and an RFP checklist for choosing a localization vendor for Turkish, Arabic and Balkan markets.
Enterprise localization teams and LSP vendor managers
MTPE vs human translation for Turkish and Arabic: when each works
A decision guide for enterprises and LSPs choosing between machine translation post-editing and human translation into Turkish and Arabic.
LSP vendor managers
Regional vendor checklist for LSPs: what to verify before onboarding a Turkish or Arabic subcontractor
A checklist and decision criteria for LSP vendor managers onboarding a Turkish or Arabic regional subcontractor.
AI/ML data leads
Speech and text training data for Turkish, Arabic and Persian: what AI teams should specify
A specification guide for AI/ML data leads ordering Turkish, Arabic or Persian speech and text training data from a vendor.
Languages
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Variants, writing systems and the mistakes to avoid in each of the languages we cover.
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Turkish
Our home language: native Turkish linguists in Istanbul for software, game, e-commerce and marketing content, plus Turkish AI training data.
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Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic and regional dialects for software, games, e-commerce and finance, with RTL testing and Arabic AI training data.
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Persian
Native Persian (Farsi) linguists for right-to-left software, game, e-commerce and marketing content, plus Persian AI training data.
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Kurdish
Kurmanji and Sorani translation, localization and AI training data, with the right script for each audience and right-to-left testing for Sorani.
FAQ
Questions about the guides
Who are the El Turco guides written for?
The El Turco guides are written for people who buy or manage localization and AI data work: localization managers and producers at enterprises, vendor managers at language service providers and data leads at AI teams. Each guide explains how to scope, compare and run a type of project in Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Balkan or Turkic languages, without prices or sales copy.
How are the guides different from the blog?
El Turco guides are structured decision documents: a direct answer first, H2 sections that follow the buying process, a comparison table where it helps and a short FAQ. Blog posts are narrative articles on language and industry topics. Guides link to the matching blog posts, language pages and service pages so a reader can go from decision to detail in one or two clicks.
Are the guides kept up to date?
Each El Turco guide shows its last update date at the top of the page and the same date is used as dateModified in its structured data. Guides are revised when our process, tools or the languages we cover change. Facts in the guides come from our own operations and from standard, verifiable knowledge about the languages, never from unsourced market statistics.
Can I request a guide on a specific topic?
Yes. Enterprises, language service providers and AI teams can ask for a guide on a topic that is missing through the contact form. Requests that come up repeatedly are added to the publishing plan. In the meantime the project managers answer scoping questions directly, and a free pilot or 300-word test translation is often the fastest way to settle a question.
Still Have a Scoping Question?
Describe the project in a few lines: content, languages and deadline. A project manager answers the scoping question directly.