Written by the AfroHairClinicTurkey editorial team, drawing on the clinical experience of our medical team · Last updated August 29, 2026 · How we write and check this
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is the brand behind this site. The procedures described here are carried out at Afro Hair Clinic in Ataşehir, Istanbul, by the surgeons named on these pages. We are documenting the exact corporate relationship between the two and will state it here rather than summarising it from memory. What we can tell you now is that this is not a new clinic wearing a new name — we’re an established surgical team that treats Afro and Afro-Caribbean patients regularly, and this site exists to explain that part of our work properly instead of squeezing it into one paragraph on a general page.
Why a separate site for Afro-textured hair?
Because the questions are different.
“Will this leave a scar on my skin?” isn’t something every hair transplant patient asks, but it’s one of the first things many of our Afro and Afro-Caribbean patients want answered. “Is my hairline being pulled back by tension, or is this genetic?” isn’t a Norwood-scale question. “Will my curl come back?” has no equivalent on a straight-hair page.
Spend an evening researching hair transplants and you’ll notice how little of it was written for you: the photos are straight hair, the advice assumes a pattern that doesn’t match how coiled hair thins, and the paragraph that mentions “curly hair” usually stops there. We got tired of watching that context flattened into a bullet point, so we built a site that starts from it.
How we work
One to three patients a day
The clinic states that it treats one to three international patients a day on average, and that its maximum daily capacity is ten. Those are two different numbers and the difference matters: the fewer people booked on your day, the more of a procedure a surgeon can actually be present for, rather than supervising a production line. It is worth asking what the number is on the day you are offered. It also means dates are genuinely limited — not as a pressure tactic, just as scheduling reality.
Channel opening is done by doctors
decides the angle, depth and direction every graft will grow in. Get it wrong and no amount of graft survival rescues the result. At the clinic it’s performed by doctors specifically to keep those decisions under surgical control.
Grafts are assessed under magnification
Donor grafts are examined under magnification before placement. On coiled hair, where the follicle curves beneath the skin and risk is real, that assessment is what makes density planning something other than guesswork.
You’ll be understood
Patient coordinators work with international patients in nine languages — English, French, German, Russian, Romanian, Italian, Arabic, Spanish and Turkish. For a procedure where post-operative instructions genuinely affect whether grafts survive, being understood is a clinical matter, not a hospitality one.
The team
Every case is planned and carried out by people we name, not handed to an unnamed “medical team” on the day. Dr. Harun Eymen Alakaya is the physician. Ayhan Sever is a paramedic; Tuğçe Arslan and Muhammet Aslıyüksek are anaesthesia technicians. Each description is the one their diploma supports — an earlier version of this page claimed more than the paperwork does, and what changed is recorded.
Their education, career history, procedure volume and certifications are set out individually — along with a plain note about what we have and haven’t independently verified.
What we’ll tell you that costs us business
We’d rather say you’re not ready than book a procedure that won’t hold up. If your hair loss is still progressing from tension, or your donor supply can’t support what you’re picturing, we’ll say so — see when we’d ask you to wait.
The same principle runs through the rest of the site, and it’s deliberate:
- We publish how to spot a misleading before-and-after, including on us.
- We publish how to verify a surgeon, including ours.
- We publish how to read reviews, including ours.
- Where a credential hasn’t been independently confirmed, we say so on the page rather than letting you assume.
- Where a commercial term isn’t finalised, we leave it off rather than publish something you might plan around.
A clinic confident in its work should be able to hand you the tools to check it. That’s the whole idea.
What we’re not
We’re not the cheapest, and we’re not trying to be — below a certain price something is being cut, usually surgeon involvement or session time. We’re not a high-volume operation. And we’re not a good fit if you want a guaranteed number before anyone has looked at your scalp, because that number would be invented.
Where we are
Afro Hair Clinic — Küçükbakkalköy, Dilek Sabancı Cd. No:4, 34750 Ataşehir/Istanbul, Turkey. Ataşehir is on the Asian side of the city, which is worth knowing before you book flights — see your trip.
How this site is written
Clinical claims are reviewed by a named surgeon before publication, and corrections are welcomed rather than resented. Our editorial and medical review policy sets out who writes, who reviews, how we handle reviews, and what we will never do.
Questions before you commit to anything? Message us on WhatsApp — a real person on our team answers.
What is still unknown
These are gaps in the published research, not gaps in our reading of it. Each one is either stated as unresolved by a paper we have read, or recorded in our register as something we looked for and could not find.
- Why keloids form more readily in some people than others is not established. The difference itself is well documented; the mechanism behind it is not.Stated as unresolved in Dermatologic Clinics 1988
If any of these has since been answered in the literature, tell us — we would rather update the page than defend it. Our verification record tracks what is still outstanding.