Turkey has a large health sector with high-standard private health-care available at reasonable cost in the main cities. In rural areas and the east of the country, health services are less developed. Many Turkish doctors and dentists speak a foreign language, particularly at major hospitals. Private health insurance is recommended.

DiseasePrecautionCertificate
Yellow FeverNoNo
CholeraNoNo
Typhoid and Polio1N/A
Malaria2N/A
Note
1
Outbreaks of typhoid may occur in rural areas.

2
Potential malaria risk (exclusively in the benign vivax form) exists from May to the end of October in the Çukorova/Amikova areas and in southeast Anatolia, Adana and Antalya (Side). There is no malaria risk in the main tourist areas in the west and southwest of the country.

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