Our founder, Atilla İstek is an attorney who specializes in medical law with more than 20 years of experience in the field. He worked on medical malpractice cases extensively. During his entire career, he always sided with the patients and represented them. Never did he represent doctors or hospitals.

With this firsthand experience during his long career, he witnessed how doctors, hospitals, and other institutions operate. Risky institutions, uncertified institutions due to lack of qualifications, refugee doctors and medical personnel working/employed illegally without any accreditation, etc. The pain and tragedies caused by medical malpractice that he saw throughout his career made him feel like he should do something about it. Somebody had to. However, the problem was much greater than his own sphere of influence and impossible to definitively solve.

So, Atilla İstek decided to do something about it within his own reach. The most vulnerable group in the healthcare sector was foreign patients. Because they were entrusting their lives in a foreign country, to doctors and hospitals they did not know. They were choosing their doctors and hospitals based solely on the photos they saw on the internet and their perceptions of them. Sometimes they were deceived by fake photographs, and sometimes they were victims of illegal organizations working in basements presenting themselves as health institutions. And when things went south, they were unable to seek justice for their rights because of the hardship of navigating foreign legislation and they were left alone with their fate.

It was under these conditions that the idea of ​​the “Sarmentum Way” was born.