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NOTE
TurkeyHealth.care is an independent editorial platform. We are not a clinic, hospital or healthcare provider, and we do not operate hotels, transfers or any in-country services. Clinics listed here hold their own accreditations and clinical responsibility. Every traveller selects their clinic at their own discretion.
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“The Michelin Guide of health travel in Türkiye.”
EDITORIAL POSITION · EST. 2026
01 · WHAT IT IS
02 · WHY TÜRKİYE
03 · HOW WE CURATE
04 · ALI — WHAT HE PROVIDES
05 · MEDICAL & HOSPITALITY ADVISORS
06 · A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER
02 · WHY TÜRKİYE
03 · HOW WE CURATE
04 · ALI — WHAT HE PROVIDES
05 · MEDICAL & HOSPITALITY ADVISORS
06 · A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER
Your curated health
journey, your second life
experience in Türkiye.
An independent editorial platform for healthcare, wellness and recovery travel in Türkiye. We are not a clinic. Not a marketplace. Not a tour operator. An edit — in the tradition of a serious travel magazine.
Honest about what we know. Calm about what takes time. Focused on longevity and holistic recovery as much as treatment.
INDEPENDENT
Editorial — not a marketplace, not a broker.
VISITED
Every clinic seen in person, unannounced.
CURATED
23 of 1,200+ clinics passed the edit so far.
CONCIERGE
Ali — your single point of contact, in six languages.
01 · WHAT IT IS
The shortest answer
We read, write and curate — you choose your clinic, we handle the travel around it.
OUR POSITION, IN ONE LINE
What others have called us
“Think of it as the Michelin Guide of health travel in Türkiye — a careful edit, written by people who go there themselves.”
Reader, Munich · spring 2025
We sit closer to a travel magazine than to a tour operator. The clinical relationship is yours and your chosen clinic's; the hotel is yours and the hotel's; the flight is yours and the airline's. Our work is the long, slow editorial part: the visits, the interviews, the comparison sheets, the budget estimates, and the introduction that gets the conversation started.
02 · WHY TÜRKİYE
The need this answers
One country has quietly become
the world's most-practised destination for health travel.
#1
Hair transplant
destination worldwide
#3
Medical tourism
destination in Europe by volume
1.5M+
International patients
received in 2024
40+
JCI-accredited
hospitals across the country
01
Hospital quality at the top end
Türkiye holds one of the world's largest JCI-accredited hospital networks — the same accreditation framework used by leading US and European university hospitals. Many flagship private hospitals are research-grade, multi-disciplinary, and indistinguishable in equipment and credentialing from counterparts in Munich, London or Vienna.
02
A generation of self-taught specialists
In hair restoration, ophthalmology, oncology, cardiology, robotic surgery and dental implantology, Turkish clinics are arguably the most-practiced in the world. Volume has produced refinement, and refinement has produced reputation.
03
Hospitality, woven in
This is the country that invented the guest room. The instinct that runs from the corner çay seller to the five-star hotel front desk also runs through the patient floors: presence, attention, the small thing remembered.
04
A meaningful price advantage
Comparable treatments are routinely 50–70% less than UK, German or US equivalents — not by cutting corners, but because of currency, scale, and direct-pay structures. The saving pays for the flight, the hotel, and an after-care stay on the coast.
05
A destination, not just a hospital
From the Bosphorus to the Aegean coast, from Cappadocia to Pamukkale, Türkiye is one of the few places where recovery actually belongs to the trip. A week of treatment can sit inside two weeks of a country worth coming for.
FIGURE · COST COMPARISON
Coronary bypass
€80–120k
€18–28k
Hip replacement
€20–35k
€7–12k
Dental full-arch
€25–40k
€6–12k
LASIK (both eyes)
€4–6k
€1.2–2k
UK/DE PRIVATE RATES → TR JCI HOSPITAL RANGES · 2025
03 · HOW WE CURATE
The slow work
Six criteria, before any clinic enters the guide. Five rules we won't break after.
01
Accreditation, verified
JCI, ISO 9001, TÜV, national bodies — recorded, linked, dated. Held by the clinic. Reported by us.
02
Volume & outcomes
We ask for and publish case volume per procedure, complication rates where disclosed, and the clinician's personal caseload.
03
Named clinicians
We publish the lead physician's name, training, specialty board and registry number, so you can verify them yourself.
04
Visited in person
Every clinic in our guide has been visited — unannounced — by a member of the editorial team. As a journalist, never as a patient.
05
Hospitality, observed
Recovery rooms, food, the waiting area, how staff speak to a confused person at the desk. We watch the small things.
06
Independent reader correspondence
We talk to past patients we found ourselves, not the testimonials supplied by the clinic.
Independence & disclosures
In plain language, the rules behind the edit.
§ 01Clinics pay a flat annual listing fee. Fees do not buy rankings, position, or editorial tone.
§ 02No clinic may edit, pre-approve, or veto a review before publication.
§ 03Negative findings stay. We have removed four clinics to date for failing a follow-up review.
§ 04Editorial team is paid by the platform, not by individual clinics.
§ 05AI assists with research, translation, and pattern-finding. Editors make every decision and sign every piece.
04 · ALI
Your concierge
The smartest concierge in Türkiye — with a quietly powerful team reading over his shoulder.
A
Ali
your concierge
“Hello. Tell me what you want to feel better, and I'll find three clinics worth meeting — with the prices written down.”
EN · DE · NL · TR · IT · FR · usually replies within 2h
HEAD OF GUEST EXPERIENCE
Like a thoughtful friend in Istanbul who happens to know every clinic.
“I'll send you three clinics, the prices written down, a week's shape, and the reviews — then I'll get out of your way.”
Ali is our concierge — warm on the phone, fast at the desk, and quietly clever about everything that follows. Behind him: a Medical Advisory Board of physicians, a Hospitality Advisory Board of hoteliers and city guides, and a careful AI layer that helps him compare, translate and surface, but never decide.
Ali doesn't deliver your treatment or your stay — your clinic does the medicine, your hotel does the hospitality. Ali curates, schedules, and listens.
What Ali actually delivers
A curated healthcare journey, before you ever say yes.
01
Top matches
Your three best-fit clinics, side-by-side.
For every program, our editors pick three clinics worth your consideration — accreditations, named clinicians, case volumes, the editorial review and the caveats. Not a long list. A short, honest one.
02
Estimated budget
A realistic total, not a teaser price.
Treatment range from the clinic, plus a planning estimate for flights, hotel and a recovery stay. Currencies you can read. No hidden line items.
03
Draft itinerary
The shape of your week, before you say yes.
A suggested rhythm — consult day, treatment day, rest days, a coastal recovery stretch. You move it around. Or ignore it entirely.
04
Reviews & evidence
The editorial file, in plain language.
Our visit notes, the named lead clinician, every accreditation we could verify, what other readers told us. Strong opinions, weakly held; primary sources linked.
AND · ONE MORE THING
Ali arranges your consultations with the clinics you choose to meet.
He emails the clinic on your behalf, books the consult slot, forwards anything they ask for, and confirms it back to you in your language. After that, the clinical conversation is yours and theirs.
THE DECISION
Yours.
Always yours.
Always yours.
The clinic you choose, the doctor you trust, the treatment you agree to — those are between you and them. We curate the choice. We don't make it.
BEHIND ALI
Clinical advisors · hospitality advisors · one careful AI
He's sweet on the phone. He's well-read on the inside.
MEDICAL ADVISORS
A clinical accuracy layer sits between clinic files and what Ali tells you.
Clinical reviewers check our editorial content for proportionate claims and accuracy. They do not treat anyone through us.
HOSPITALITY ADVISORS
Hoteliers, chefs and city guides who keep the country knowledge fresh.
Independent advisors from across Istanbul, the Aegean, the Mediterranean and Cappadocia. We list, we don't operate — hotels and drivers are run by the partners we trust.
THE AI LAYER
A small, careful intelligence that helps Ali compare, translate and surface.
Reads the editorial library. Matches your brief to three best-fit clinics. Drafts itineraries in your language. Editors and advisors sign off; the AI never decides alone.
HUMAN-REVIEWED
AI assists, editors decide. Nothing about a clinic, a clinician or your plan reaches you without a named editor's review.
The fine print, in plain language
We owe you transparency about what we publish, what we don't, and why one clinic appears here and another doesn't.
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Medical disclaimer
We are an editorial platform. We don't diagnose, treat, prescribe, or take clinical responsibility for any care you receive.
READ →
Editorial principles
How we decide what to publish, how we handle conflicts of interest, and how AI is used in our work.
READ →
How we select providers
The six criteria every clinic, hospital and wellness provider must meet before appearing on this site.
05 · THE ADVISORY BOARDS
Medical & Hospitality
The editorial is backed by clinical and hospitality expertise. One lens on the medicine we describe, the other on the country we guide you through.
MEDICAL STANDARDS BOARD
Our Medical Standards Board — founding phase.
We are assembling a founding medical board alongside our partner clinics. Our clinical standards are currently led by an independent emergency-medicine specialist who reviews every clinic we onboard. Names are announced with their consent.
FOUNDING MEMBER
To be announced
Specialist physician · EU-accredited · announced when confirmed with partner clinics
Announcing soon
HOSPITALITY ADVISORS
City advisors in five regions. Ali's reading list.
Independent hoteliers, chefs and guides who keep our country knowledge fresh. They advise our editorial — they're not operated by us.
CONCIERGE · YOUR POINT OF CONTACT
Ali
12 yrs hospitality · reads every brief, answers every note
İstanbulTR · EN · IT
ISTANBUL ADVISOR
Deniz Bayrak
Hotelier · Karaköy · neighbourhood guide
İstanbulTR · EN
AEGEAN ADVISOR
Mert Koç
Hotelier · İzmir, Çeşme, Bodrum corridor
İzmirTR · EN · IT
ANTALYA ADVISOR
Ecem Aydoğan
Boutique hotelier · Kaleiçi · Mediterranean coast
AntalyaTR · EN · DE
CAPPADOCIA ADVISOR
Onur Yıldız
Cave-hotel operator · Ürgüp · Göreme
GöremeTR · EN
FOOD & NUTRITION ADVISOR
Şef Yasemin Tuğ
Chef · Mediterranean & post-op nutrition consultant
İstanbulTR · EN · FR
06 · A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER
Why this exists
The question I've been asking for over a decade.
FOUNDER · SINCE 2026
Gizem Burteçin
Two decades building platforms, communities and ecosystems.
Alibaba.com · Doğuş Holding
Founder, Yaşa Devam (2013)
İstanbul · TR · EN
Founder, Yaşa Devam (2013)
İstanbul · TR · EN
I'm Gizem Burteçin. I've spent two decades building platforms, communities and ecosystems — across e-commerce, marketplaces, coworking, and AI — including senior roles at Alibaba.com and Doğuş Holding.
The work I keep returning to started in 2013, when I founded Yaşa Devam at Doğuş — Türkiye's first platform focused on aging well. TurkeyHealth.care is the next concrete answer to a question I've been asking for over a decade: how we age, how we recover, and how international visitors can experience Türkiye's healthcare without being rushed or marketed at.
The need was simple to see, and harder to answer well. Türkiye genuinely has world-class clinicians, and a hospitality instinct that no other country quite matches. But the way the country is sold to foreign patients — aggressive aggregators, lead-broker call centres, packaged-tour mentality — is not how I would want my own mother flown to a strange city for surgery.
So we are building the opposite. A small, slow, editorial outfit. Writers who visit. A review process that reads before we publish. A concierge — we call him Ali — who surfaces three clinics worth meeting and arranges the consultations. AI where it earns its place, hidden behind a person on the phone.
We do not treat. We do not diagnose. We do not push a clinic over another. The choice is yours. Our job is to make that choice better informed — and the week around it ordinary.
Gizem Burteçin
Founder
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