Know Before You Go

The first question almost everyone asks when they hear about medical travel in Türkiye is some version of the same thing: if it costs so much less, something must be wrong. It is a reasonable instinct. We are conditioned to associate price with quality — in most areas of life, you get what you pay…

Every few years, a city earns a reputation that travel guides struggle to keep up with. Paris for fashion. Copenhagen for food. Medellín for reinvention. Over the past decade, Istanbul has earned one that surprises many people the first time they hear it: medical travel. Not just dental work or cosmetic procedures — though Istanbul…