EMU Translation and Interpreting Department’s 8th Silver Screen Days

The EMU Translation and Interpreting Department's 8th Silver Screen Days commenced at Mustafa Afşin Ersoy Hall on 4 January 2016.Taking place between 4 and 7 January 2016, the event hosted the screening of movies with different themes. Presentations on different translation techniques as well as on the importance of professional translation were also given before each screening.

The 8th Silver Screen Days movies were translated into Turkish by senior students Affet Aksakallı, Ayşe İnsan, Buğra Etikan, Hamit Çobanoğlu, Sevinç İnsan, Aziz Tuncay, Cemal Aşık, Görsel Monargalı, Meryem Ökten, Murat Erkol, Hulusi Özyahyalar, Sıla Akalın, Cansu Kanioğlu, Ziya Mert, Gizem Dönmez, Gürbüz Bazu and Ömer Bor.

Translation and Interpreting Department academic staff member and the supervisor of the projects Neslihan Binatlı Hekimoğlu stated that the event aims to make the students aware of the important responsibility undertaken in the translation profession. Academic staff member Hekimoğlu also added that there is a need in the translation sector for quality translations and expert translators, and that in order to function as a high quality translator one should possess effective translation techniques, intercultural communication and general culture.