Buying, selling or brokering an organ is a criminal offence in Turkey. Here are the exact phrasings an illegal offer arrives in, and what a lawful one looks like.
An organ transplant in Turkey needs three separate document bundles from a foreign patient: the medical file, the ethics-commission kinship papers, and travel papers.
Immunosuppressants after an organ transplant are lifelong and the follow-up happens at home — what a foreign patient has to arrange before flying out.
A kidney transplant is quoted from about $16,000 in Turkey and $200,000–$400,000 in the United States. Here is the organ transplant cost by country, and what each figure covers.
Kidney donor surgical mortality is 2.2 per 10,000; 40% of liver donors have a complication. What every living donor should know before consenting.
A kidney transplant beats dialysis when a patient is eligible, but eligibility is a nephrologist's judgement — and foreign patients need a living donor first.
Every foreign transplant patient in Turkey goes before an ethics commission. It looks for payment and coercion, not medical fitness. The documents, the sequence and what a refusal means.
Living-donor liver transplant in Turkey costs from $45,000–$50,000, with 95–97% early success but 60–70% five-year survival and real donor risk.
