DThe hotel breakfast room offers a wide view over the sea of houses in the metropolis of Istanbul, the Bosphorus, the sparkling blue sea of Marmara. And yet there is something unsettling about the situation. At various tables sit young men, perhaps in their thirties, all obviously with head injuries. Artfully wrapped white bandages leave their faces out. It soon turns out that there is nothing to worry about. The gentlemen who talk happily to each other, looking like Arabs, have undergone a transplant, a hair transplant.
Istanbul is the hair transplant capital of the world. Hundreds of clinics large and small offer their baldness reduction services, also for foreign clients, including airport transfers, accommodation, native language support, aftercare and companion programs. That quickly costs € 2,000 or significantly more on the full carefree four-day no-flight package, but remains well below the costs demanded in Israel, Britain or Germany.
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