Aylin Yılmaz, MD

Yes. Dr. Yılmaz holds the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Health specialist certificate in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, issued on 7 November 2022 under specialty registration number 157105.

You do not have to take our word for it. Turkey maintains a public physician registry, and any patient can look up a surgeon by name or registration number before booking. We publish her diploma and specialist certificate on this page for the same reason — credentials that cannot be checked are not credentials.

One thing worth knowing before you search: her medical degree and most of her course certificates were issued under her maiden name, Aylin Akbulut. She practises today as Aylin Yılmaz. Both names belong to the same registration number, 157105 — so if a document reads "Akbulut", you are looking at the right surgeon.

Dr. Yılmaz. She is the surgeon on our team whose specialty board is in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, and breast and body work is her focus: breast augmentation, breast lift, breast reduction, tummy tuck, liposuction and combined mommy makeover procedures.

Our other two surgeons are specialists in different fields — Dr. Akif Mehmetoglu is a dermatosurgeon who concentrates on facial rejuvenation, and Dr. Göknil Gültekin is an ENT surgeon who concentrates on rhinoplasty. We do not rotate cases between them. The surgeon whose specialty matches your procedure is the surgeon who operates on you.

Mostly it changes the things you notice two or three years later, not two weeks later.

Dr. Yılmaz trained in reconstructive microsurgery (including a 40-hour course at Çukurova University and a course at Şişli Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital), cleft lip and palate surgery, and hand and limb trauma. That work is built around blood supply, tissue tension and how scars mature over time.

Applied to a breast lift or an abdominoplasty, it shows up as conservative decisions about how much tissue can safely be moved, where the incision sits, and how the scar is planned to age — rather than how the result photographs at the six-week mark.

Often yes — a breast lift with abdominoplasty and liposuction is one of the most requested combinations among our international patients. Whether it is appropriate for you depends on your BMI, your medical history, and the total operating time the combination requires.

Dr. Aylin Yılmaz assesses this at the virtual consultation, before you book any flights. If a combination pushes operating time into a range she is not comfortable with, she will propose staging it instead. That answer is sometimes disappointing, and we would rather give it before you travel than after.

Procedures take place in a hospital, and your stay includes a 24/7 private nurse, private transfers and coordinated aftercare once you are home.

Yes. Dr. Aylin Yılmaz is a female plastic surgeon, and for many of our breast surgery patients that matters during examination and during the conversation about what they actually want.

Consultations are conducted in English, either by video before you travel or in person in Istanbul. If you would like a female nurse present for the physical examination, tell your patient coordinator and it will be arranged as a matter of course, not as a special request.