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Short of visiting us in our office, this is the best we can do to help you put a face to the voice – or the e-mail message.

Depending on the scope of a particular project we use many freelance colleagues also but here below you can meet the people in our office.




Evren Ay
Mr. Ay who has studied Management at the Université de Paris - Sorbonne has begun his professional career in 1996 at the Eurasia Group, an international research and consulting firm headquartered in New York.

During 1999 - 2003, he has served as the Executive Director of the Federation of Turkish American Associations and has assumed the management of the Turkish Link in 2003. Evren Ay is a contract simultaneous interpreter for the US Department of State and has been serving as an interpreter for many high level meetings since 1999. He is especially experienced on business and legal terminology and also speaks French.
Hasan Alkan
Mr. Alkan has graduated from Istanbul University Translation and Interpretation Department in English in 2005. His translation and interpretation career started as a freelancer during his studies. He has worked for many Turkey based translation companies and performed translations on legal, technical and advertising related projects. After his graduation, he has continued working for translation agencies on a freelance basis. He joined the in-house staff of Turkish Link in 2006 after moving to New York and currently acts as a project manager.
M. Deniz Oz
Mr. Oz graduated from Bilkent University, Department of Tourism and Hotel Management, and Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics. Since 1987 he has held managerial positions at governmental and private institutions in tourism, food, steel, banking and finance sectors in Turkey and USA.

He started working as a linguist in 2002, and has been collaborating with Turkish Link as an interpreter and translator since 2003. He is experienced in financial, medical, commercial and legal translations, and also speaks German and Italian.
Oz Oktem
Ms. Oz Oktem has graduated from Bogazici University Department of English Language and Literature in 1998 and received her M.A. Degree on English Language Instruction from Canakkale University in 2003. During her studies, she worked as a freelance translator and interpreter for the Wall Street Journal Turkish Edition and in various translation offices in Istanbul. Later on, she worked at Milliyet Newspaper Foreign Desk as a reporter and translator. In 2001 she started an academic career at the Canakkale University and at the same time worked as an English Literature lecturer at the same university until 2005. Ms. Oktem has joined the Turkish Link in August 2006.
Yigit Or
After graduating from Istanbul Technical University as a geophysical engineerMr. Or started working as a graphic designer as he liked it much better. He has 
accumulated over 17 years of experience for graphic design in various sectors including: beauty products, media, textiles and apparel, art, lighting, publishing, packaging, sport and fitness, wallpaper, rugs and web design.


He joined the Turkish Link team in 2007 as a graphic designer.
 
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