The Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Yıldız Technical University was established in 1992. Our department includes the Division of French Translation and Interpreting, which was the first undergraduate program in Turkey to offer training in French translation, the Master’s Program in French Translation and Interpreting, launched in the 1999–2000 academic year; the Doctoral Program in Interlingual and Intercultural Translation Studies, launched in the 2007–2008 academic year; and the Master’s Program in Translation Studies, launched in the 2022-2023 academic year, aims to train competent translators who meet the needs of the language and translation services sector, as well as researchers and academics who produce cutting-edge scholarship.