How we protect your practice
Top Surgeons Turkey is an independent, non-commercial editorial guide. We rank surgeons only on public, verifiable signals — never pay-to-play. Being listed here is designed to support your practice, not compete with it. Here is exactly how we protect you.
We never take your patients
We don't accept patient inquiries, appointment or booking requests, and we never relay messages to physicians.
Your own website is published on your profile so patients reach you directly, through your site or clinic. We repeat this notice on your profile and on our contact page.
Who is shown — and where
If your TST score places you in the top 30 of a published list, your profile is shown automatically — in the list, in the directory and on its own page, which search engines such as Google can show in their results.
If you are not in the top 30 of any list, your profile stays hidden — out of the directory and out of search engines, findable only in the claim search box — until you claim it. Once you claim it, your profile can be published — and then appear in search engines too.
Who is in the top 30 is recalculated regularly — at least once a month — so you can move into or out of a list as the evidence changes.
You can ask to be removed
If you are listed and do not want to be, tell us through the contact page — or, once you have claimed your profile, request it from your account.
Once we have verified that the request really comes from you, we remove your profile permanently: it disappears from the site — photo, bio and scores included — we ask search engines to drop the page, and you are excluded from every future data update, so you are never added back.
We never act on a request we could not verify, so no one else can have you removed.
Your rights: claim, object, reply
You can claim your profile for free and manage it yourself.
You can object to anything you believe is inaccurate; a correction request goes straight to our editors. And you may reply publicly to any blog content that concerns you.
No editorial edits — your score is automatic
Once you claim your profile the account is yours; we do not hand-edit your standing.
The TST score is computed automatically from public data and updates on its own. No one can raise or lower it by hand — not us, and not a competitor.
Free — and never for sale
Being listed is free. You cannot pay to be listed, to rank higher, or to remove a competitor — and no one else can either. The score cannot be bought.
Only provable signals count
Your score is built only from public, verifiable data: public review ratings, board and society memberships checked against official registries, and years of experience derived from the YÖK national thesis registry.
There are no subjective opinions and no hidden judgments.
A fully transparent method
The exact formula and weights are public on our methodology page. You can see precisely how your score is calculated — and reproduce it yourself.