The role and the visibility of the court interpreter

The world's globalization triggers a natural increase in numbers of criminal proceedings and culprits whose language is different from the language of the court. Furthermore, each society requires the duty of interpreters where the culprits either belong to a minority or even hearing-impaired. Amended by European Human Rights Convention Art 6/3-e, each Government is forced to obtain an interpreter "for free". This right is an indispensable privilege of the right to a fair trial. Thus, under all given conditions, in all legal proceedings, specifically in criminal proceedings, the visibility of state-reimbursed court interpreter and interpreting increase accordingly. My thesis focuses on state-reimbursed 'court interpreter' in the light of supranational and national legal acts on 'the right to free assistance of an interpreter' , within the theoretical frames of following theories of translation and interpretation: 'Skopos', 'Interpreter as an Expert and Interpreting as an Act' and general theory of 'The Division of Labour in Society'. Furthermore, the identity of the court interpreter, their legal status in Turkish Law and through the restrictiveness their visibility and expertise in application are evaluated based on the corpus of the lists of translators and interpreters registered from 2008 to 2018 by the Courthouse of Istanbul. Çağlayan by using descriptive and contentual analysis methods.