Data sources
Every source behind this site, what it supplies, how often it is read, and what it cannot tell you.
Official sources
| Source | Supplies | Read |
|---|---|---|
| healthturkiye.gov.tr Ministry of Health health tourism portal |
The facility register: identifier, legal name, authorisation number, city, facility type, branches, treatments, languages, clinicians, declared accreditation and certification counts | Daily, 03:17 UTC |
| Ministry document CDN | Authorisation certificates and operating licences as PDFs — 6,402 mirrored | On change |
| shgmturizmdb.saglik.gov.tr Health Tourism Department, authorised facility lists |
Four published lists of authorised facilities — hospitals, medical centres, private practices and other health facilities — with name, province, facility type, address and telephone. Used as a cross-check on the portal, not as a listing source: it carries no authorisation number, no clinicians and no documents. See methodology for the 316-facility gap the comparison found. | Compared 18 September 2026 |
| Resmî Gazete | The regulation the guides cite: Uluslararası Sağlık Turizmi ve Turistin Sağlığı Hakkında Yönetmelik, 26 April 2025, Sayı 32882 | On publication |
The Ministry's interface is public and requires no account, key or agreement. It is read at a normal pace, once a day, identifying itself as this site.
Derived and clinic-declared
| Field | How it is obtained | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Website | Derived from the domain of the clinic's registered email address, then fetched and required to name the facility before it is published | 2,959 published, 287 withheld as unconfirmed |
| Description | The clinic's own og:description or meta description, used only where the
register carries no description |
1,824 |
| Map location | Google Places, matched to the registered facility | Most facilities |
| Social accounts | Published by the clinic | Where present |
What no source here can tell you
None of the above describes the quality of treatment at any facility. The register records that a facility is permitted to treat international patients. Whether a particular treatment plan is right for you, and whether a particular clinician is the right person to carry it out, are clinical questions that no register answers. The guides are about how to ask them.