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.
Visibility on your terms
If your TST score places you in a top-10 list, we feature you automatically.
If you are not in a top-10 list, your profile is shown publicly only if you claim it. Until then it stays out of the directory — findable only in the claim search box. You decide whether to be listed.
Your profile is not indexed by search engines
Individual surgeon profiles carry a noindex directive — we deliberately keep “Dr. [Name]” pages out of Google results, so you are never surfaced as an advertisement against your will.
Only aggregate editorial pages — top lists, the blog, the methodology — are indexed.
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.