About
Istanbul has become one of the places people fly to for a nose. This page is about the city that grew into that, and about who is writing to you from it.
Istanbul is a city of something like sixteen million people sitting on two continents, and it has been a place people travel to for a very long time. Rhinoplasty arrived in that habit rather than inventing it. Turkiye's Ministry of Health publishes the count of people who came to the country for healthcare, and in 2025 it was 1,398,580. Not all of them came for a nose, and the same source does not break the figure down by operation. What it does establish is the scale of the thing.
Some of what draws people is straightforwardly good. Volume tends to concentrate skill: a surgeon who operates on noses most days of the week has met more variations of the problem than one who sees a few a month, and this city has surgeons who work on very little else. It has also been a crossroads for centuries, so the anatomy that comes through the door is genuinely varied, and a surgeon who is only used to one kind of nose is not much help to everyone else.
There is also a great deal of money in this, and where there is money there is marketing. From a distance, through a website and a message thread, careful work and confident salesmanship can be made to look identical. Telling them apart is what this site is for.
The part that surprises people
What decides how your operation goes is not the city, the hospital foyer or the hotel. It is the surgeon, their training and what they actually propose to do to your nose. Everything here is arranged around a specific named person and a specific plan. Our doctors is where that starts.
If you want the city itself rather than the surgery, we keep a page on what it is like to have the operation here: the flights, the days you will actually spend, and the part of the recovery that happens after you have flown home again.
We publish guides to rhinoplasty in Istanbul and we list the doctors who perform it. A question sent through this site reaches the doctor named on the page.
rhinoplasty.istanbul publishes two things. The first is a set of guides to rhinoplasty, written from published clinical sources, read by a clinician before they go up and dated twice so you can see when each was last checked. The second is the doctors: who they are, what they trained in, what they operate on, and a direct route to ask them a question.
The guides came first and they are still the larger half. Most of what people need before a consultation is information, not an introduction: what the operation does, what the recovery actually looks like week by week, what a quote should itemise, and which questions are worth taking into the room. Start with the basics, or go straight to our doctors.
The site is published from Istanbul, and edited by a named person you can email directly: akya.karahan@flymedi.com. That address reaches the editor rather than a queue.
This site is published and funded by the organisation that operates it. The doctors listed here work with us directly, and a question you send through the site reaches the doctor whose name is on the page.
Dr. Tugce Simsek reads the clinical pages on this site before they are published, and she is also one of the doctors listed on it, so a question you send through the site can reach her. We would rather you knew that from the start than worked it out later. The full position, and how we handle advertising.
Editor
Akya writes and edits the guides on this site. She works from published clinical sources and from what patients actually ask, and prefers to write that something is uncertain rather than smooth it over.
Akya is an editor and writes these guides in that capacity, working from published clinical sources. Every clinical page she writes is read by a clinician before it is published.
Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist
Dr. Tugce Simsek is an ear, nose and throat specialist practising in Istanbul, with a practice centred on the nose. She reads the clinical pages on this site before they are published: the technique descriptions, the recovery timelines, the risk sections and the figures quoted from published studies.
Medical review here means a clinician has read the page and confirmed that what it says about anatomy, technique, recovery and risk is accurate and is not overstated. Advice about your own nose comes from a consultation, where somebody can examine it.
The longer versions: editorial policy, medical review, advertising and sponsorship, medical disclaimer.
Email akya.karahan@flymedi.com. Corrections, questions about how we work, and requests from doctors about their own profiles all go there. More ways to reach us, or send a question to a doctor.
This page last updated 11 August 2026. Content across the site is reviewed on a 12-month cycle.
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