How do I check a doctor in Turkey?

Turkey's Ministry of Health handles diploma registration, equivalence and formal specialist-registration functions. The e-Devlet doctor-information service requires identity authentication and is described as a service for doctors' own records, rather than an open patient name search.

How do I look up a doctor?

Ask the doctor for their full name and ministry-verifiable registration evidence. Doktor Bilgi Bankası on e-Devlet provides authenticated personal, education and certificate information. Do not expect to enter any doctor's name there without the required access.

Use the details supplied by the doctor to request confirmation from the ministry. If you receive a document or extract, ask how its current status can be verified. The ministry's registration and equivalence department identifies the official functions responsible for this enquiry.

How do I check a specialist or a dentist?

Request the exact specialist title and evidence of its formal registration. The ministry has separate specialty-registration and specialty-equivalence functions. Ask it to confirm the record where no public result is available. Society membership or a procedure course does not replace a recognised specialty.

For a dentist, obtain the name and diploma-registration details, then ask the ministry or relevant professional authority for confirmation. The ministry's medical and dental registration unit provides the relevant official route. Keep the dentist's credentials separate from the clinic's operating and tourism permits.

Does the register show disciplinary action?

Ask the ministry or relevant professional authority what current restrictions and disciplinary information it can confirm. An authenticated education record should not be treated as a complete public disciplinary clearance. Request a specific answer if the documents supplied do not address present professional standing.

What about doctors trained abroad?

Foreign qualifications need the applicable equivalence and ministry registration, alongside other practice and work requirements. Foreign specialist training has its own recognition and registration process.

For foreign dentists, nationality and work eligibility also need confirmation. The existence of a diploma-equivalence service does not mean every foreign national has a general right to practise. Ask the authority to confirm the individual's permission, not just recognition of the diploma.

What do US, Canadian or UK titles mean here?

An overseas credential does not replace Turkish professional requirements or make a clinic's tourism permit the doctor's licence; see the foreign-credentials guide.

Checked on 23 October 2026.