🇹🇷 Turkey · Healthcare
How the Turkey healthcare system works — public vs private care, eligibility, and costs for residents and visitors.
Türkiye combines public social-security healthcare through SGK / Genel Sağlık Sigortası with a large private hospital market, especially in major cities.
- Residence-permit applications require valid health insurance, which can be SGK/GSS coverage or qualifying private insurance.
- SGK describes General Health Insurance as the framework financing access to health services for insured persons.
- Foreigners should verify enrolment, waiting periods and private-policy wording before relying on coverage for immigration or treatment.
Official authorities
- Social Security Institution (SGK) — General Health Insurance
Official explanation of General Health Insurance.
- Migration Management — Residence permit health-insurance requirement
Lists acceptable insurance evidence for residence permits.
Official-information aggregation, not legal advice. Always verify on the authority's own site.