editorial
HairLinQ compares hair transplant clinics in Turkey for patients across Europe, US & Middle East. Our guides are produced by a small team rather than by a single named author, so this page sets out who writes them, what we check, what we deliberately avoid, and how we are paid. It is linked from every guide on the site.
Who writes HairLinQ's guides?
HairLinQ's guides are researched and written by our editorial team, working between the Netherlands and Turkey. We publish under an organisational byline rather than inventing an individual one, because we would rather you judged the method than a name.
Market research is contributed by colleagues who work directly with Turkish clinics, including Ayşe Gül Orçin, our Clinic Partnerships Manager. Where a contributor holds a commercial role we say so on the article itself, and we keep commercial contributors off the guides that tell you how to evaluate and choose a clinic.
Responsibility for everything published here sits with HairLinQ as a company. Our registered company details are on our legal notice.
Are you medical professionals?
No. Nobody on the HairLinQ team is a doctor, and HairLinQ does not give medical advice. We are a comparison platform, and our expertise is the market: what clinics charge, what their packages include and exclude, how a quote is constructed, and how to check that a clinic is licensed to treat international patients.
We also do not employ a medical reviewer, and we will not describe anything on this site as medically reviewed unless that becomes true. If we ever engage a clinical reviewer, they will have no commercial relationship with any clinic listed on the platform, and we will say so on the page.
What do you write about, and what do you avoid?
We write about the commercial and practical side of hair restoration, where no clinical credential is needed to be useful: what a procedure costs, what an all-inclusive package really contains, how to compare two quotes fairly, how to check a clinic's licence, what the warning signs look like, what your rights are, and what a trip to Istanbul actually involves.
We deliberately avoid the clinical questions. We do not tell you how many grafts you need, which technique suits your hair, what your recovery will be like, or whether a transplant is right for you at all. Those depend on an examination of your scalp by a qualified doctor, and any website that answers them from a photograph is guessing.
Where a clinical fact is unavoidable inside an article about cost or logistics, we attribute it to a named authority and keep it to the minimum the point requires.
Where does your information come from?
HairLinQ uses sources in this order of preference:
Official and regulatory sources. The Turkish Ministry of Health, national health services such as the NHS, and European regulators.
Professional bodies and peer-reviewed literature, including the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery.
Published reporting from established news organisations.
Published clinic pricing, which we treat as marketing rather than as neutral data, and always compare across several clinics rather than citing one.
We name our sources in the sentence rather than referring vaguely to studies or experts, so you can check them yourself. Where the evidence is genuinely contested, we say it is contested instead of picking the version that suits us.
How often do you update prices?
Every guide carries a visible "Last updated" date, driven by the actual date the page was edited rather than a number we type in. We review price figures at least every three months and whenever the market moves noticeably, and we state the period that any figure applies to.
A price without a date is not information. If you find one on this site, it is an error and we would like to know.
What does HairLinQ verify about a clinic?
HairLinQ confirms that a clinic holds a valid Turkish Ministry of Health International Health Tourism Authorization, and re-checks it. That is a licensing check. It establishes that a clinic is legally permitted to treat international patients and has been inspected against a defined standard.
It is not a judgement of surgical skill, an audit of results, or a guarantee that a clinic honours the quote it sends you. Accreditations such as JCI, TEMOS or ISHRS membership are declared by clinics themselves and are not verified by us, so we describe them as clinic-declared. Our full clinic verification methodology sets out exactly what we check and what the check does not cover.
We list only clinics that hold a valid authorisation, and we do not list every clinic that holds one.
How does HairLinQ make money?
Clinics pay HairLinQ when they receive patients through the platform, in the same way a hotel booking site is paid by hotels. Patients pay us nothing, and requesting or comparing quotes is free.
Clinics cannot buy a position, a rating, a review or a mention in a guide. They have no input into what we write, no sight of articles before publication, and no ability to have content changed or removed. If something in this market is bad for patients we publish it, including when it involves clinics we work with.
We also write honestly about the alternatives to using HairLinQ, including going direct to a clinic and having the procedure in your own country, because a comparison that only ever points one way is not a comparison.
How do you handle corrections?
Tell us at our contact page if you think something here is wrong, and we will check it. Where we have made a factual error we correct it and note the change on the page rather than editing quietly.
The same applies to clinics. A clinic that believes we have described it inaccurately can write to us, and we will check the facts. What we will not do is remove accurate information because a partner would prefer it were not there.