Dutch victims of aesthetic malpractice in Turkey

Gazete Duvar

545 women from the Netherlands havelaunched an online campaign for the purpose of raising awarenessagainst a Turkish aesthetic clinic that they say left them disabledfollowing procedures such as hip and breast augmentation andliposuction.

The women reportedly chose an aestheticclinic called İmed İstanbul due to its cheap price advantages.According to a report in the BBC's Turkish edition, the clinic isowned by a Dutch citizen of Turkish descent by the name of ZübeydeAkdaş, and it was advertised heavily on Facebook.

The women said that the agreement theysigned prior to the surgery was in Turkish, and that they wanted toshare their negative experiences on social media in order to warnother women and prevent them from making the same mistake.

The Facebook group has reached nearly1000 members, and the top-selling newspaper in the Netherlands, DeTelegraaf, published a story with the headline “They were leftdisabled by the Turkish hips king,” which detailed the malpracticethat the women said they experienced at İmed Istanbul.

Turkey and Istanbul have become verypopular for medical tourism in recent years, as routine procedureslike dental work are often considerably cheaper and of similarquality compared to much more expensive countries like the UnitedStates. Cosmetic procedures such as hair transplants have also becomeparticularly popular among tourists from countries in the MiddleEast, as these procedures are considerably cheaper than those offeredby clinics in Europe, and they often come as part of a package dealwhich includes lodging and transport.