A comprehensive patient guide to bariatric surgery in Turkey in 2026. We detail the gastric sleeve (Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy) process, the multi-disciplinary team requirement, and the long-term nutritional support included in Istanbul packages.
Turkey performed an estimated 85,000 bariatric surgeries in 2024. Roughly 40% of those patients came from outside Turkey. The United Kingdom alone sent over 12,000 patients for weight loss surgery that year, most of them facing NHS waiting lists of two to five years for a procedure that changes health outcomes at every level: diabetes...