Turkish Ministry of Health

Check a surgeon in Turkey from abroad, step by step

1. Get two names in writing

   Before you pay anything, ask the clinic or agency in writing for the full name of the surgeon who will operate on you, and the name of the hospital or clinic where you will be operated on and spend the first night. Every step below needs those two names. The checklist of the Turkish Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons says that if you book through a health tourism agency, you should “demand the name of the surgeon who will perform the operation and the name of the hospital.”

   The society's checklist for international patients

   You can check: What you are being sold, on paper, before any money moves.

   You cannot check: Whether the surgeon named will operate. Ask that directly in the consultation.

2. Check the facility's health tourism authorization

   Search the facility's name in the Ministry of Health's register of authorized facilities, or in our English copy of it. This authorization is granted to a facility, and it is the document Turkish law requires before that facility may treat international patients.

   The Ministry's facility search (HealthTürkiye) · Our English copy of the register

   You can check: Whether the facility is on the Ministry's list, and its certificate number. Both open without a login.

   You cannot check: It is not a rating of the surgeon, of the operation, or of the result. It says the premises are permitted to do this work — not how well. Not finding a surgeon here does not mean they are unauthorized: many operate inside a hospital that holds the certificate under the hospital's own name.

3. If an agency arranges the trip, check the agency

   Look the agency up in the Ministry's list of authorized health tourism agencies on HealthTürkiye. The list says the agencies on it are authorized by the Ministry of Health to provide accommodation, transportation and transfer services to international health tourists.

   The Ministry's agency list (HealthTürkiye)

   You can check: Whether the agency is on the Ministry's list. No login.

   You cannot check: Anything about the surgeon or the facility: the agency's authorization covers the agency.

4. Look for the surgeon in the plastic surgery society's lists

   Search the surgeon's name in the member search of the Turkish Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (the page is in Turkish: type the name and press “Doktor Ara”), and look for it on the society's English list headed “Turkish Board Certified Members”. Type the name with its Turkish letters (ç, ğ, ı, ö, ş, ü).

   The society's member search (in Turkish) · The society's list of Turkish Board Certified Members

   You can check: Whether the society lists the name, and the institution its member search gives. Both pages open without a login.

   You cannot check: Society membership is not a licence to practise, and neither list says how often a surgeon performs a deep plane facelift.

5. If the surgeon claims the European board, check it

   If the surgeon says he or she holds the European board qualification (EBOPRAS), search the name in the board's list of fellows. EBOPRAS describes a fellow as a registered specialist plastic surgeon in their country of training who has also passed the EBOPRAS examination.

   EBOPRAS list of fellows

   You can check: Whether the surgeon passed the European board examination.

   You cannot check: Current standing. EBOPRAS itself says inclusion on its list “does not guarantee that they remain of good standing. This information can only be obtained through National Medical Authorities.”

6. A doctor's licence: what you cannot confirm from abroad

   We found no official search that a patient living outside Turkey can use to confirm a doctor's licence. We cannot query one for you either. Ask the surgeon for a copy of the specialty certificate (uzmanlık belgesi) and check that the name matches the lists above. The Ministry's HealthTürkiye site also has a public Health Professionals search by name, branch and city; we found no statement of who is included, so a name missing from it tells you nothing.

   HealthTürkiye Health Professionals search

   You can check: A copy of a document the surgeon sends you, and a HealthTürkiye listing if there is one.

   You cannot check: Neither you nor DEEPPLANE™ can confirm that copy against the Ministry's own record from abroad.

7. JCI, only if the hospital advertises it

   If a hospital says it is JCI-accredited, look it up in Joint Commission International's own directory, filtered to Turkey.

   JCI's directory of accredited organizations, Turkey

   You can check: Whether JCI's own directory lists the hospital, and for which programme.

   You cannot check: JCI accreditation describes a hospital's systems, not a surgeon's skill or your outcome; it is voluntary, paid for by the hospital, and renewed about every three years. In Türkiye it is not the certificate the law requires.

We opened every official link on this list on 11 October 2026. JCI's directory page refused our automated request, so we checked it through JCI's own search service. Each link is the organisation's own page; check there before you rely on it.

What DEEPPLANE™ checks, and what it does not

A DEEPPLANE™-verified profile means the DEEPPLANE™ badge is live on the surgeon’s own website (or a dated reprieve stands in for it) and the profile is verified as the surgeon’s: they claimed it and we approved the claim on proof of control, such as a code sent to the practice email on file or our link on the surgeon’s own site, or, for an unclaimed profile, DEEPPLANE™ verified it on evidence that ties that website to the surgeon or on public signals such as Google reviews. It is not a check of board certification, licence status, photographs or identity.

For a surgeon practising in Türkiye, DEEPPLANE™ links the Ministry's register entry wherever it names the surgeon's own clinic. We cannot query the Ministry's doctor record either, and we show no result photographs of surgeons practising in Türkiye.

How we read and check what we publish: our methodology.