National and international actors in healthcare interpreting and interpreting in educational settings in Turkey

Duman, Duygu Çurum (author)

This study explores how community interpreting services have developed in Turkey’s healthcare and education sectors in response to the large-scale displacement triggered by the Syrian conflict. It investigates how national and international actors collaborate to shape linguistic access across these public services. The study adopts a qualitative multiple case study design and applies Mencütek’s meta-governance framework to analyse policy documents, institutional reports and media resourc­es, complemented by the author’s experience as a community interpreter trainer. The findings sug­gest that healthcare interpreting has become relatively formalized under the Ministry of Health through hierarchical coordination and the EU-funded project SIHHAT, whereas education relies on more decentralized, project-based interpreting service provision initiatives involving NGOs and UNICEF. This analysis highlights the difference in the governance models reflected in distinct mod­els of interpreting services. The study contributes to refugee governance and interpreting studies by underlining the need for sustainable, cross-sector collaboration in public service interpreting.

• Language: English
• Keywords: healthcare interpreting, educational interpreting, institutional collaboration, international actors, national actors
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 27-51
• Numbering: Vol. 5, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-190503
• ISSN on article: 2784-5826
• DOI: 10.4312/stridon.5.2.27-51
• Publication date in RUL: 05.11.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Stridon : journal of studies in translation and interpreting
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 2784-5826
• COBISS.SI-ID: 68759811

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• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Nacionalni in mednarodni akterji na področju tolmačenja v zdravstvu in v izobraževanju v Turčiji

Abstract

V članku je predstavljena raziskava o razvoju skupnostnega tolmačenja v Turčiji na področju zdravstva in izobraževanja kot odziv na obsežno razseljevanje zaradi konflikta v Siriji. V raziska­vi proučujemo, kako nacionalni in mednarodni akterji sodelujejo pri zagotavljanju dostopa do javnih storitev za tuje uporabnike. S kvalitativno študijo primerov in z uporabo Mencütekovega metodološkega okvira metaupravljanja analiziramo politične dokumente, institucionalna poročila in medijske vire, podatke pa dopolnjujejo tudi avtoričine osebne izkušnje v vlogi učiteljice skupno­stnega tolmačenja. Rezultati kažejo, da je tolmačenje v zdravstvu postalo razmeroma formalizirano v okviru Ministrstva za zdravstvo, s hierarhično urejenim upravljanjem, in projekta SIHHAT, ki ga financira EU; na področju izobraževanja pa so tolmaške storitve bolj decentralizirane in temeljijo na projektnih pobudah, ki jih izvajajo nevladne organizacije in UNICEF. Analiza izpostavi razliko med modeli upravljanja, ki se odražajo na različnih modalitetah tolmaških storitev. Raziskava pred­stavlja doprinos k upravljanju beguncev in k tolmačeslovju, saj poudarja potrebo po trajnostnem in medresorskem sodelovanju pri skupnostnem tolmačenju.

• Keywords: tolmačenje za zdravstvo, tolmačenje za izobraževanje, medinstitucionalno sodelovanje, mednarodni akterji, nacionalni akterji