Türkan Tanyel, MD

Türkan Tanyel, MD is an Internal Medicine physician at the Acibadem Bodrum Outpatient Clinic in Muğla, Turkey, where she practises within the Internal Medicine unit. Her subspecialty interest is thyroid diseases and their treatment, and her clinical work also covers diabetes, metabolic conditions, obesity, anemia, fatty liver disease, chronic pancreatitis and health concerns in older adults. She has more than 33 years in medicine and approaches internal medicine conditions through structured evaluation and individualized diagnosis and treatment planning.

Dr. Tanyel graduated from İstanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine in 1993 and completed her specialty training in 1998 at the Haseki Training and Research Hospital Department of Internal Medicine. She then worked from 1998 to 2000 at İstanbul Haseki Training and Research Hospital / Department of Internal Medicine, followed by positions at Özel Gaziosmanpaşa Hospital (2000–2002), Özel Hayat Hospital (2002–2003) and Özel Ota Medical Center (2003–2013). From 2014 to 2023 she was based at Özel Bodrum Acıbadem Hospital, with a role at Acıbadem Healthcare Services in 2015, and in 2023 she worked at Taksim Training and Research Hospital. She is a member of the Turkish Internal Medicine Specialization Association.

Clinical focus

Thyroid disorders and their treatment form the core of Dr. Tanyel’s subspecialty interest. Alongside thyroid care, a large part of her practice concerns metabolic disease diagnosis and treatment, including prediabetes, type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes and obesity. These conditions often occur together, and her assessment aims to consider them as a whole rather than in isolation, so that a treatment plan can be tailored to the individual patient’s findings and circumstances.

Dr. Tanyel also evaluates and manages anemia, fatty liver disease and chronic pancreatitis. Geriatric health is a further area of expertise, covering the internal medicine concerns of older adults, who frequently present with several coexisting conditions. In each of these areas, her work involves clarifying the diagnosis, reviewing existing test results and previous treatments, and discussing with the patient the options that are appropriate to their situation.

How Dr. Tanyel works with international patients

Dr. Tanyel consults in Turkish and English, and interpreters can be arranged for patients who speak other languages. Before a visit, the international patient team coordinates the collection of prior reports and imaging, such as laboratory and pathology results, ultrasound, MRI or CT reports, operative notes and discharge summaries, and arranges appointments and the clinic visit itself. A first consultation typically covers the patient’s history and symptoms, a review of existing imaging and previous treatments, a clinical examination and a discussion of the possible options. Video consultation is available for international patients, which can be useful for an initial review of a case or for follow-up after treatment, although some assessments will still require an in-person examination.