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Memorial Bahçelievler Hospital, Istanbul
Memorial Bahcelievler Hospital is a private hospital in Istanbul within the Memorial Healthcare Group. It publishes profiles for several transplant surgeons, but its site blocks automated reading, so little could be checked independently.
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About this centre
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- Private hospital
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- Istanbul, Turkey
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In short
Memorial Bahcelievler Hospital — Memorial Bahçelievler — is a private hospital in the Bahçelievler district of Istanbul, part of the Memorial Healthcare Group. It publishes clinician profiles for transplant surgeons including Prof. Dr. Acar Tüzüner and Prof. Dr. İbrahim Kemal Astarcıoğlu. Its website refuses automated access, which means the capacity, accreditation and programme details that this site normally verifies could not be checked, and none of them are stated here. What is set out below is what independent academic sources establish about the clinicians it lists.
At a glance
- A private hospital in Bahçelievler, Istanbul, within the Memorial Healthcare Group.
- Publishes clinician profiles for several transplant surgeons.
- Its website blocks automated access, so its own claims could not be verified here.
- No bed count, theatre count, accreditation or transplant volume is stated on this page.
- Prof. Dr. Acar Tüzüner holds a senior academic transplant post at Ankara University.
- Prof. Dr. İbrahim Kemal Astarcıoğlu is published in liver transplantation at Dokuz Eylül University.
- Confirm which hospital and which surgeon in writing before committing.
Why this page is short, and what that does and does not mean
This page is shorter than the others on this site, and it is worth saying why in the first paragraph rather than letting you wonder.
Memorial's website refuses automated requests. Every attempt to read the hospital's own pages — the hospital profile and the clinician profiles alike — returns a refusal rather than a page. That is a normal protection for a commercial website and it is not a criticism of the hospital, but it has a consequence for a site like this one: the details we would ordinarily verify and publish could not be read at all.
The alternative would have been to assemble this page from medical-tourism directories, which is where most of the information about Turkish hospitals on the English-language internet actually comes from. We did not, and we will not. Those sites carry plausible-looking descriptions of real hospitals and real surgeons that are frequently years out of date, and this platform's own editorial policy excludes them as evidence for exactly that reason.
So what follows is narrower than we would like and is sourced from places that can be checked: university faculty material and the indexed academic literature.
What this does not mean. It is not a judgement about the hospital, the quality of its transplant programme, or its surgeons — two of whom have substantial and verifiable academic records. It means only that we could not read what the hospital says about itself.
- The hospital's website refuses automated requests, so its own pages could not be read.
- That is a normal commercial protection, not a criticism of the hospital.
- Medical-tourism directories were not used as a substitute, by editorial policy.
- What follows is sourced from university material and the academic literature.
- None of this is a judgement about the hospital or its surgeons.
The surgeons it lists, from independent sources
Two of the transplant surgeons published on this hospital's site have substantial records that can be checked without going through the hospital at all.
Prof. Dr. Acar Tüzüner. Ankara University's own material establishes a senior academic transplant career: general surgery specialisation at Ankara University from 1997 to 2002; a research fellowship at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute at the University of Pittsburgh in 1999; a clinical abdominal multi-organ transplant fellowship at the University of Calgary from 2005 to 2007; and a professorship from 2013. He holds the European Diploma in Transplant Surgery, and in 2019 was selected as a delegate to the European Board of Surgery's transplant surgery division. His own professional site describes him as coordinator of the kidney transplant unit at Ankara University İbn Sina Hospital. He is extensively published in kidney, liver and pancreas transplantation.
Prof. Dr. İbrahim Kemal Astarcıoğlu. Published in the academic literature in general surgery, in the division of liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery at Dokuz Eylül University School of Medicine, with research spanning paediatric liver transplantation, hepatocellular carcinoma outcomes and living-donor techniques.
A point that follows from both records, and which applies across Turkish transplantation: senior surgeons commonly hold a university chair and consult privately at the same time. A hospital listing and a university post are not contradictory. But it does mean the hospital listing alone does not tell you how much of a surgeon's week is spent there, which is a fair question to ask.
- Acar Tüzüner: Ankara University; Pittsburgh and Calgary transplant fellowships; professor 2013.
- Holds the European Diploma in Transplant Surgery; UEMS transplant division delegate, 2019.
- İbrahim Kemal Astarcıoğlu: liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery, Dokuz Eylül University.
- Senior Turkish surgeons commonly hold a university post and consult privately at once.
- Ask how much of a surgeon's week is actually spent at the hospital you are attending.
What to establish before committing
Because less than usual is verified here, the questions matter more than usual. Ask, and get the answers in writing.
Which hospital, exactly? Memorial operates a group of hospitals. Confirm the site, not the brand.
Which surgeon will operate, and how often are they at this hospital? Particularly relevant where a surgeon also holds a university post in another city.
What is this hospital's bed count and intensive care capacity? Intensive care is the figure that matters for a transplant centre.
Is this hospital accredited, by which body, and when was it last awarded? Then check the accrediting body's own register rather than the hospital's website.
How many kidney and liver transplants were performed at this hospital last year, and what is the one-year graft survival?
Who assesses the donor, and is that team independent of the recipient's?
Every one of these is answerable by the hospital, and a centre that answers them readily is telling you something useful about itself.
- Confirm the specific hospital, not the group brand.
- Ask which surgeon operates and how often they are on site.
- Ask for bed count and, more importantly, intensive care capacity.
- Ask which body accredits it and when — then check that body's register.
- Ask for last year's volume and one-year graft survival.
- Ask whether donor assessment is independent of the recipient's team.
Common questions about Memorial Bahçelievler Hospital
Where is Memorial Bahçelievler Hospital?
In the Bahçelievler district of Istanbul, on the European side. It is part of the Memorial Healthcare Group, which operates several hospitals — confirm which site your treatment would take place at.
Why does this page say less than your other hospital pages?
Because the hospital's website refuses automated requests, so we could not read what it publishes about itself. We did not substitute medical-tourism directories, which our editorial policy excludes as evidence. The page is built from university material and the academic literature instead.
Does that mean something is wrong with the hospital?
No. Blocking automated requests is a normal protection for a commercial website. It is a limitation on what we could verify, not a judgement about the hospital, its programme or its surgeons.
Which transplant surgeons does it list?
Its published transplant surgeons include Prof. Dr. Acar Tüzüner and Prof. Dr. İbrahim Kemal Astarcıoğlu. Both have substantial academic records that can be checked independently through their universities and the indexed literature.
How many transplants does it perform?
We could not establish it, and we do not estimate. Ask the hospital directly for the number of kidney and liver transplants performed at this site last year, and for its one-year graft survival.
Is it accredited?
We could not verify this. Ask which body accredits the hospital and when it was last awarded, then confirm through that body's own published register rather than the hospital's website.
Sources
Memorial Bahçelievler Hospital — hospital listing opens in a new tab
www.memorial.com.tr
Prof. Dr. Acar Tüzüner — professional site opens in a new tab
acartuzuner.com.tr
PubMed — Tüzüner, transplantation opens in a new tab
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
PubMed — Astarcıoğlu, liver transplantation opens in a new tab
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The hospital's own site could not be read, so nothing on this page is drawn from it beyond the fact that it lists these clinicians. The clinician material comes from university sources and the indexed literature. Please check each link before relying on it.