Fixed prices · No deposit · 2026
Gastric Sleeve Turkey Cost — and the price of every bariatric procedure in İzmir
One page, every price, no hidden extras. The gastric sleeve surgery price starts at £3,000 all-inclusive, a gastric bypass at £3,500, a gastric balloon at £1,200. Every package includes your hospital stay until discharge — never a hotel transfer, and every operation is performed personally by Op. Dr. Volkan Arayıcı.
Send me your height, your current weight and your age, and tell me which procedure you are considering — I will reply personally with a fixed, all-inclusive price, usually the same day.
The full price list
Bariatric surgery Cost Turkey — the full price list
Every figure below is a fixed, all-inclusive package price quoted in pounds sterling. The gastric sleeve surgery price starts at £3,000 and the gastric balloon at £1,200. If you are weighing the gastric sleeve price Turkey clinics advertise against the gastric bypass price in Turkey, both sit in the same table below rather than on separate pages. Nothing is added after you arrive: your pre-operative tests, the operation itself, your hospital stay until discharge, all transfers inside İzmir and twelve months of follow-up are already inside the number.
Gastric sleeve price and every other procedure, side by side
| Procedure | All-inclusive price | Hospital stay | Best suited to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gastric sleeve | £3,000 | 4 nights, until discharge | BMI 35+, first bariatric operation |
| Gastric bypass | £3,500 | 4 nights, until discharge | Higher BMI, type 2 diabetes, severe reflux |
| Mini gastric bypass in İzmir | £3,500 | 4 nights, until discharge | Single anastomosis, shorter operating time |
| Sleeve revision (ReSleeve) | £3,500 | 4 nights, until discharge | Weight regain after a dilated sleeve |
| Gastric band revision | £3,600 | 4 nights, until discharge | Band removal plus conversion in one operation |
| Gastric balloon | £1,200 | Endoscopic — no overnight stay | Lower BMI, or no surgery wanted |
| Gastric balloon, 12-month | £2,200 | Endoscopic — no overnight stay | Longer treatment window, no re-insertion |
How to read the gastric sleeve surgery cost above
Three columns matter more than the price column. Hospital stay is where most of the money goes and where cheaper clinics economise — four nights on a ward is not the same product as one night and a hotel room, however similar the two quotes look. Best suited to is there because the cheapest procedure is rarely the right one: a lower gastric sleeve cost is no bargain if your reflux or your diabetes calls for a bypass. And all-inclusive package price means what it says — the weight loss surgery cost you see is the weight loss surgery cost you pay, with no theatre fee, no anaesthetist invoice and no surcharge if a complication has to be treated.
Every bariatric surgery cost Turkey patients pay here is quoted the same way, whichever procedure you choose. The number changes; the terms behind it never do.
One number, no surprises. The gastric sleeve price above is the whole number: there is no deposit to pay before you travel and no administration fee on arrival. You settle the full amount in cash on the day of your operation — and if a complication were to occur, treating it costs you nothing extra.
Send your height, weight and age. You get a fixed gastric sleeve cost — or the price of any other procedure — back, usually the same day.
Full transparency
What the all-inclusive package price covers — and what it does not
"All-inclusive package price" is used loosely across the industry, so here is exactly where our line sits. The weight loss surgery cost you are quoted covers everything from the moment you land in İzmir until twelve months after you fly home. The one thing it does not cover is the flight itself — and we would rather tell you that on this page than at the airport.
Included in every package
- Complete pre-operative work-up: blood panel, abdominal ultrasound, and separate clearance from cardiology, pulmonology and anaesthesia
- The operation itself, performed laparoscopically by Op. Dr. Volkan Arayıcı personally — never delegated to an assistant
- Your hospital stay until discharge, in a JCI- and TEMOS-accredited hospital with intensive care in the same building
- All medication, fluids and nursing care during your stay
- VIP transfer from İzmir airport, and every transfer between hospital and accommodation
- English-speaking coordination throughout your stay
- Twelve months of follow-up by video call and WhatsApp, including your nutrition plan
- Treatment of any complication at no additional charge
Not included
- Your flights. The package begins the moment you land in İzmir. Fares swing far too much between seasons and departure cities for us to bundle them honestly into a fixed price — you will almost always book them cheaper yourself
- Travel insurance, and your passport or visa costs
- Personal spending during your stay
- Any extra nights you choose to add for sightseeing after you are discharged
If a clinic quotes you a price with flights folded in, ask which airport and which month that fare assumes. The number usually stops making sense.
Why this matters more than the headline number. A £2,400 quote that excludes your pre-operative tests, adds a theatre fee on arrival and charges again if something goes wrong is not cheaper than £3,000 — it is simply less honest about when you pay. If you want to see where each of those days actually goes, we have set out how a gastric sleeve in İzmir unfolds, from landing to discharge.
UK vs Türkiye
What the same operation costs in the UK
British patients almost always arrive at this page after pricing the operation at home first. The gap is not small, and it is worth understanding where it comes from before you decide. Below are the ranges private UK clinics currently quote, set against our own bariatric surgery cost Turkey.
| Procedure | UK private clinic | With us, in İzmir | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gastric sleeve | £8,000 – £13,000 | £3,000 | £5,000+ |
| Gastric bypass | £8,500 – £15,000 | £3,500 | £5,000+ |
| Gastric balloon | £3,000 – £5,000 | £1,200 | £1,800+ |
| Gastric band (and its revision) | £5,000 – £7,000 | £3,600 | £1,400+ |
UK figures are the ranges private clinics publish for self-funding patients and exclude the initial consultation, typically £200–£300. Our column is the complete package price: the gastric sleeve cost of £3,000 and the gastric bypass price in Turkey of £3,500 are what you pay in total, not starting fees.
And what about the NHS?
On the NHS the operation is free at the point of use, and if you qualify and can wait, that is the right route — we will say so plainly. But access is tightly rationed. You will generally need a BMI of 40 or above, or 35 and above alongside a serious obesity-related condition such as type 2 diabetes, and you will normally have to complete a supervised weight-management programme before you are even referred. Reported waits then run to years rather than months.
That is the real choice most of our British patients face, and it is rarely the one they expected when they first looked up the gastric sleeve Turkey price: not "Turkey or a private UK clinic", but "treat this now, or carry the weight and its health consequences for another two or three years". If your GP has told you that you fall just outside the criteria, that is worth discussing with us before you give up on the idea.
A lower price is only meaningful if the outcome holds. Before you compare numbers, it is worth seeing what the result actually looks like twelve months on — we publish before and after outcomes and the unedited accounts of patients who travelled to İzmir, including from the UK.
The question behind the price
Why is it cheaper — and when should a low price worry you?
This is the question every serious patient asks, and it deserves a straight answer rather than reassurance. A gastric sleeve surgery price of £3,000 is not a discount on the operation, and neither is a weight loss surgery cost that sits thousands below the British equivalent. It is what the same operation costs to deliver in a country where the underlying economics are different.
The cost base, not the standard
Staff salaries, hospital overheads, insurance premiums and medical indemnity in Türkiye run at a fraction of UK levels, and the exchange rate widens the gap further. The staplers, the laparoscopic tower and the anaesthetic drugs are bought from the same global manufacturers at broadly the same prices — those are the parts that do not get cheaper, and they are the parts that determine your safety.
Volume creates competence
A UK bariatric surgeon may perform a few dozen procedures a year. Dr. Arayıcı has completed more than 5,000 and does nothing else — no general surgery, no other specialty. In bariatrics the relationship between case volume and complication rates is one of the better-established findings in the literature. Here, high volume is what makes the price sustainable and the technique consistent.
No middleman
You are not booking through an agency that adds its margin to a hospital's invoice. You message the surgeon, the surgeon quotes you, and the surgeon operates on you. Nothing in your price is paying a commission to a broker who will not be in the room.
When a low price genuinely should worry you
Cheap is not the danger signal. Cheap because something essential was removed is. Before you accept any quote — ours included — ask these five questions and insist on written answers:
- Will I stay in a hospital until I am discharged, or will I be moved to a hotel the day after surgery?
- Is there an intensive care unit in the same building, and is the hospital JCI or TEMOS accredited?
- Which named surgeon will operate, how many of these procedures do they perform a year, and are they an IFSO member?
- Are cardiology, pulmonology and anaesthesia clearances included before surgery — and what happens if one of them says no?
- If a complication occurs, who pays for treating it?
A clinic that answers all five without hesitating is worth considering at any price. One that cannot is not a bargain at any price. And if you want figures rather than reassurance, we publish both: how safe bariatric surgery in Türkiye actually is, and the gastric sleeve death rate and complication figures most clinics leave off their websites.
How and when you pay
No deposit, no instalments, no surprises
Most clinics ask for money before you have met anyone. We do not. There is no deposit, no booking fee and nothing to transfer in advance — you pay the full amount in cash on the day of your operation, once you have arrived in İzmir, had your tests, and met the surgeon who will operate on you.
We also do not offer instalment plans or third-party finance, and that is deliberate. Finance packages are how a £3,000 gastric sleeve cost quietly becomes a £4,200 debt. One payment, one number, nothing owed afterwards.
The part that matters most is the last one: if a complication occurs, treating it costs you nothing extra. No second invoice, no charge for a longer stay, no bill for a return to theatre. A clinic that charges you again when something goes wrong has put the risk on the patient. We keep it.
What this means in practice. Nothing binds you until you are in İzmir and satisfied with what you have seen. If cardiology, pulmonology or anaesthesia does not clear you for surgery, the operation is postponed and you have lost nothing but the flight. That is the correct way round: the clinic carries the commercial risk, not the patient. Any question about payment, dates or documents, contact us directly.
Before you compare quotes
What actually determines your price
The figures on this page are fixed package prices, not opening bids. What varies is which of them applies to you, and how much work sits behind it — which is exactly why we ask for your height, weight, age and medical history before quoting rather than after. If you have been shopping around, the gastric sleeve price Turkey clinics advertise ranges from roughly £2,400 to well over £4,000, and six things sit behind that spread.
The surgeon's experience
By some distance the most important factor, and the one patients weigh least. An experienced bariatric surgeon works faster, which means less time under anaesthetic; handles the difficult anatomy without improvising; and produces fewer complications. Dr. Arayıcı has performed more than 5,000 bariatric operations and does nothing else. Experience is the largest single component of the gastric sleeve surgery cost, and the last thing worth economising on. A quote well below the market usually means a low-volume surgeon, a trainee, or someone you will not meet until you are on the table.
The quality of what stays inside you
A sleeve is created with surgical staplers, and the staple line is what holds for the rest of your life. We use original, branded, individually traceable devices from established manufacturers — every cartridge logged, every batch accountable. Counterfeit and grey-market copies of these instruments exist and cost a fraction of the price. We do not use them, under any circumstances. Cheaper instruments would cut the gastric sleeve surgery cost immediately and invisibly — which is exactly why this is the one saving a patient can never see on a quote, and the one that matters most.
Your BMI
As BMI rises, so does operating time, the difficulty of access, and the risk of complications. A higher BMI can also mean more stapler cartridges, longer anaesthesia and closer post-operative monitoring. It does not disqualify you — most of our patients are in the higher ranges — but it is a genuine driver of what an operation costs to deliver safely.
Conditions that travel with obesity
Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnoea, high blood pressure and fatty liver all change the preparation. They mean a broader pre-operative work-up, closer anaesthetic planning, and sometimes a different procedure altogether — a bypass rather than a sleeve. If you have type 2 diabetes alongside obesity, that conversation should happen before any price is agreed, not after.
Previous abdominal surgery
Any earlier operation on your abdomen — a caesarean, a hernia repair, a gallbladder removal, or a previous bariatric procedure — leaves adhesions. Scar tissue makes the anatomy harder to read and the dissection slower and more careful. This is why revision surgery is priced above a first operation: it is the same procedure only in name.
What the package actually contains
The largest reason two quotes differ is not the surgery at all — it is what has been left out of one of them. Pre-operative tests, four nights of hospital rather than a hotel, transfers, twelve months of follow-up, and treatment of complications at no extra charge are all inside our gastric sleeve cost. The same applies to the gastric bypass price in Turkey: the figure is higher, but the contents of the package are identical. Strip those out and any clinic can print a smaller number.
How to use this when comparing clinics. Ask any quote you receive to state, in writing, which surgeon operates and how many procedures they perform a year; whether the implants are original branded devices; how many nights are in a hospital rather than a hotel; and who pays if there is a complication. Four answers, and most of the gap between one gastric sleeve price Turkey offers and the next explains itself.
The difference nobody advertises
Four nights in a hospital — not one night and a hotel room
Read the packages of the cheapest clinics carefully and you will find the same line in nearly all of them: you are discharged to a hotel the day after your operation. It is presented as comfort — recover in a relaxing environment. It is not comfort. It is the single biggest cost saving a bariatric clinic can make.
A hospital bed costs at least three times what a hotel room costs. You are not paying for a room; you are paying for a nurse who checks you through the night, monitoring that does not stop when you sleep, an intravenous line that stays in, a surgeon in the same building, and an intensive care unit one floor away. A hotel gives you a bed and a reception desk.
Our patients stay four nights in hospital, counted from the day they land to the day they are discharged — and three of those four nights are after the operation. The stay begins on arrival because the VIP transfer takes you from İzmir airport directly to the hospital, not to a hotel. Your blood work, abdominal ultrasound and cardiac echo are done there, on day one.
Why those particular days matter. The complications that determine the outcome of bariatric surgery — a staple-line leak, bleeding, a clot — declare themselves in the first days, not the second week. In a hospital that means a nurse at the bedside and a surgeon within minutes. In a hotel room in a foreign country it means noticing something is wrong at 3 a.m., finding a taxi, and explaining your symptoms in a language you do not speak. If you want to know exactly what those warning signs look like, we have written them out plainly in gastric sleeve leak symptoms.
That difference is already inside your £3,000. We would rather spend it on your bed than on our margin — and it is the main reason our price is not the lowest you will find.
Straight answers
Frequently asked questions about the price
How much does gastric sleeve surgery in Turkey cost?
With us the gastric sleeve surgery price is £3,000, all-inclusive. That single figure covers your full pre-operative work-up, the operation performed personally by Op. Dr. Volkan Arayıcı, four nights in a JCI- and TEMOS-accredited hospital, all transfers within İzmir, and twelve months of follow-up. Private UK clinics currently quote between £8,000 and £13,000 for the same procedure. Nothing is added on arrival and nothing is invoiced afterwards.
How much is a gastric bypass or a gastric balloon?
The gastric bypass price in Turkey is £3,500 all-inclusive, and the mini gastric bypass is the same. A sleeve revision is also £3,500, a gastric band revision £3,600. The gastric balloon is £1,200, or £2,200 for the twelve-month balloon. Every one of these is a complete package on the same terms as the sleeve — the only figure that changes is the number itself.
Do I have to pay a deposit before I travel?
No. There is no deposit, no booking fee and nothing to transfer in advance. You pay the full amount in cash on the day of your operation, after you have arrived in İzmir, completed your tests and met the surgeon. We do not offer instalment plans either — one payment, one number, nothing owed afterwards.
What is not included in the price?
Your flights. The package begins the moment you land in İzmir, because airfares vary far too much between seasons and departure cities to be bundled honestly into a fixed price — you will nearly always book them cheaper yourself. Travel insurance, visa or passport costs and personal spending during your stay are also outside the package. Everything clinical is inside it. Bringing someone with you: you are given a large room with two beds, so the person travelling with you stays with you the whole time — no hotel needed. Their three meals a day and the VIP transfer from and back to the airport are included in the price. The only thing you pay for is their flight ticket.
Does the gastric sleeve price include flights?
No. The package covers everything from the moment you land in İzmir — VIP transfers, all pre-operative tests, the operation, four nights of hospital stay until discharge, medication and twelve months of follow-up. Flights are yours to book, which almost always works out cheaper than having them bundled into a package price.
Why is the gastric sleeve surgery price so much lower than in the UK?
Because the cost base is different, not the standard. Salaries, hospital overheads and medical indemnity in Türkiye run at a fraction of UK levels, and the exchange rate widens the gap. The staplers, the laparoscopic equipment and the anaesthetic drugs come from the same global manufacturers at broadly the same prices — those are the parts that determine your safety, and they do not get cheaper. High case volume does the rest: Dr. Arayıcı has performed more than 5,000 bariatric operations and does nothing else.
Will I be moved to a hotel after my operation?
Never. Our patients stay four nights in hospital, counted from the day they land to the day they are discharged, with three of those nights after surgery. The transfer takes you from İzmir airport directly to the hospital, not to a hotel. This is the most expensive part of the package and the part cheaper clinics cut first — a hospital bed costs at least three times what a hotel room costs, because it includes overnight nursing, monitoring and an intensive care unit in the same building.
What happens to the price if I have a complication?
Nothing. Treating a complication costs you no extra money — no second invoice, no charge for a longer hospital stay, no bill for a return to theatre. A clinic that charges again when something goes wrong has moved the risk onto the patient. We keep it, and that is deliberate.
Could I have this done on the NHS instead?
If you qualify and can wait, yes — and we will say so plainly rather than talk you out of it. But access is tightly rationed: you will generally need a BMI of 40 or above, or 35 and above with a serious obesity-related condition such as type 2 diabetes, and you will normally have to complete a supervised weight-management programme before referral. Reported waits then run to years rather than months. The real question is usually not Turkey versus a private UK clinic, but treating this now versus carrying the weight for another two or three years.
Who performs your operation
The surgeon behind the price
A price means very little until you know who is attached to it. Op. Dr. Volkan Arayıcı has worked exclusively in bariatric and metabolic surgery since 2014 and has completed more than 5,000 operations. No general surgery, no second specialty — this is the only thing he does, and it is the reason a gastric sleeve surgery price of £3,000 is sustainable rather than suspicious.
He is an accredited member of the IFSO, the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity, and operates in a hospital carrying both JCI and TEMOS accreditation, with an intensive care unit in the same building. Every operation is performed by him personally — never handed to an assistant while a patient is under anaesthetic.
Before anyone reaches theatre, three separate specialists must sign off: cardiology, pulmonology and anaesthesia. If one of them declines, the operation is postponed. Surgery is laparoscopic, with an intraoperative leak test, and patients are mobilised from the second hour afterwards. You can read his full background and accreditations on the about the surgeon page.
One message, one price
Find out what your operation costs — today
You do not need a consultation fee, a form, or a call centre to get a number out of us. Send four things on WhatsApp — your height, your current weight, your age, and which procedure you are considering — and Dr. Arayıcı replies personally, usually the same day, with a fixed all-inclusive price and an honest opinion about whether that procedure is the right one for you.
If your case is better served by a different operation than the one you had in mind, he will tell you. That happens often, and it is the reason we ask for your numbers before quoting rather than after.
No deposit. No booking fee. Nothing to pay until the day of your operation — and nothing extra if a complication occurs.
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