Translation and Interpreting Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University

Overview

The Translation and Interpreting course at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University aims to train translators with scientific approaches, in multiple foreign languages, with knowledge of various fields and terminology in various subjects such as medicine, law, economics, literature, social sciences, international relations, information technologies and digitalization in an educational environment equipped with modern techniques.

Opportunities Awaiting Our Graduates

Thanks to the close relationships our academic staff has established with the market, our Translation and Interpreting Department graduates can find career opportunities in media outlets (Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), Anadolu Agency, private television channels, newspapers, and agencies, the European Union Presidency, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Prime Ministry, and the National Intelligence Organization), banks' foreign affairs departments, hospitals, community centers, international conferences and meetings, publishing houses (as translators or editors), localization projects (as project managers and translators), notaries (as sworn translators), translation agencies, and second language teaching programmes, as well as establishing their own translation businesses.  

We aim to train multilingual communication agents who are socially conscious, interested in international relations, able to find solutions to today's and tomorrow's problems, able to conduct advanced academic studies, observe social and ethical values, and able to compete in the public and private sectors in a globalizing and digitalizing world!