EBOPRAS European Board · Istanbul
Sculpture in two acts: fat leaves the places you don’t want it and shapes the places you do — the procedure known as BBL. Planned to your frame, performed personally by one European Board-certified surgeon, with the safety protocol set before the shape is.
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One patient at a time. Your consultation, your operation and your follow-ups, handled personally by Dr. Akçay and never delegated.
Healed · side profile, her black dress
Early swelling flatters the projection and hides the waist that was sculpted around it. That is why every photograph here carries its date. Most show healed results; one was taken at ten days, bruises included, because honest evidence has to show that stage as well.
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Results in motion
Photographs can be argued with. Movement can’t. Four short clips, most filmed by the patients themselves. Tap to play.
“A scale cannot see shape. Liposuction done by the litre leaves people smaller and shapeless; done along the lines of the body, it leaves them looking the way they were built to look. I plan a waist the way a tailor plans a cut — standing, in daylight, to your anatomy — and I carry out the work myself. No tailor signs a suit he didn’t cut. Neither do I.”
Ayberk AkçayOp. Dr. · Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
EBOPRAS European Board Fellow·Ministry of Health Certified Specialist·2,000+ Procedures
The actual documents: fellowship of the European Board of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, specialist certification, medical diploma. Tap to read them.
Verify his fellowship in the EBOPRAS registryYou’ve read them because some of them were true. The BBL’s dangerous years had a precise anatomical cause: fat injected into or beneath the muscle, where it can enter deep veins. That lesson is built into how Dr. Akçay operates. His protocol is subcutaneous placement only — fat goes under the skin, never into the muscle — in a full private hospital with a dedicated anaesthesia team and intensive care on site, never an office theatre. And if your anatomy or your health makes the procedure unwise, he will tell you no, and mean it.
Dr. Akçay, and Dr. Akçay. The liposuction that sculpts your waist and the transfer that shapes your hips are one piece of work, and he does not hand half of it to an assistant. The surgeon you message is the surgeon who marks you, harvests the fat, places it, and reads your healing photos afterwards — and his European Board fellowship is independently verifiable in the EBOPRAS registry above.
You’ve seen the results that walk into a room before their owners do. That is what happens when someone else’s photograph is used as a blueprint. Dr. Akçay plans standing up, to your skeleton and your skin: the harvest sculpts the waist as the transfer shapes the hips, so the whole line moves together. The aim is a figure that reads as born, not built — in jeans, on a beach, and to people who will never be told.
Structured — and stricter than liposuction alone. Your compression garment is fitted before you leave the hospital, and a sitting protocol guards the graft through the first weeks, because how and when you sit matters while the transferred fat takes its blood supply. You walk early, you are checked in person through the week, and the true shape appears as swelling settles over three to six months, reviewed photo by photo after you fly home.
Ultrasound energy loosens fat before it leaves the donor area — gentler on the tissue that stays, kinder to the skin above, and precise enough that the harvest itself sculpts the waist, back or thighs. The donor areas are not a by-product; they are half the result.
Ask about the harvestThe harvested fat is purified and placed under the skin of the hips and buttocks — subcutaneous only, never into or beneath the muscle. This placement rule is the heart of the safety protocol, and it is not negotiable, for any patient, for any promised shape.
Ask about placementWaist-to-hip line, hip dips, projection versus roundness: decided standing, in daylight, on your frame — not traced from a photograph of someone else. What suits your skeleton is what still looks right in ten years.
Ask what would suit youFat transfer often shares one anaesthesia with 360-degree liposuction; a tummy tuck can join the plan where physiology and theatre time allow. Combined where safe, staged where safety says so — and the sequence is put in writing before you fly.
Ask about combiningA fitted compression garment from the day of discharge, and a written sitting protocol for the first weeks: not accessories, part of the operation. They protect the graft while it takes hold — follow them, and the result is yours to keep.
Ask about recovery rulesSome health histories, some BMIs and some anatomies make this procedure unwise — and Dr. Akçay says so before you book anything, not after. An honest no costs him an operation; it spares you a risk. That trade is always made in your favour.
Ask for an honest assessmentA few phone photos (front, side, back) and the shape you have in mind. Dr. Akçay reviews them personally and you receive an honest assessment — which sometimes reads: “this operation is not the right tool for you.”
Donor areas and the placement plan, whether 360 liposuction or a tummy tuck joins the operation, a written all-inclusive quote with every cost on it, and a video consultation with Dr. Akçay himself before you commit to anything. Nobody rushes you toward a deposit, and nothing on this page is counting down.
A VIP car collects you at Istanbul Airport and brings you to your hotel near the hospital. Travel in loose clothing and rest well; markings and theatre come tomorrow. The coordinator you have been messaging is still the one answering, on the conversation you already have.
In-person examination and markings, drawn standing up, because you live upright and only lie down in theatre. Pre-operative tests follow: blood panel, ECG, anaesthesiology review. Then surgery in a fully equipped, Ministry of Health–licensed hospital in Istanbul with a dedicated anaesthesia team. You stay the night under nursing care.
Your compression garment is fitted before you leave the hospital, and your sitting protocol starts the same day — how you rest in these weeks is what protects the graft. Early walking, scheduled in-person checks, and someone to call between them. The city stops feeling foreign when your care team is ten minutes away.
Around day seven Dr. Akçay examines you, and only when he is satisfied are you cleared to fly home, with your complete medical records in English. Some plans need a few nights more; you’ll know before you book your flights.
Photo reviews at weeks 2, 6 and 12, then months 6 and 12, on the same WhatsApp thread. The true contour appears as swelling settles over three to six months, and Dr. Akçay looks at it with you.
Photos in, quote out: once Dr. Akçay has reviewed your pictures, your personal written quote normally arrives within 24 hours.
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On WhatsApp. A few phone photos (front, side, back) and a short note about the shape you have in mind are enough. Dr. Akçay looks at every set of photos himself, and an honest assessment, together with a written all-inclusive quote, normally reaches you inside 24 hours. There is no deposit just to talk and no call centre — and if you don’t use WhatsApp, the short written form at the end of this page reaches the same team. Sometimes the honest answer is “this operation isn’t right for you.”
The frightening era of this operation had a precise anatomical cause: fat placed into or beneath the muscle. Dr. Akçay’s protocol is subcutaneous placement only, in a full private surgical hospital, with pre-operative blood tests and ECG, a dedicated anaesthesiology team and on-site intensive care. Never an office theatre. This is non-negotiable, for every patient.
How and when you sit in the first weeks is planned, not guessed. A written sitting protocol goes home with you, set by Dr. Akçay to your operation, because the transferred fat takes its blood supply in those weeks. Follow it, and the shape you paid for is the shape you keep.
Not immediately — and anyone who promises otherwise is selling, not planning. Early swelling flatters projection and hides the sculpted waist; the true contour appears as it settles over three to six months. That is why the gallery above is dated, and why the follow-up programme runs a full year.
That is an assessment question, not a promise. Donor areas add up — abdomen, waist, back, thighs — and your plan is drawn from what your body actually offers. Where fat is genuinely scarce, the plan may be staged, reshaped around sculpting alone — or declined honestly, rather than over-harvested to chase someone else’s photograph.
Whichever combination is safe for you. Fat transfer often shares one anaesthesia with 360 liposuction; a tummy tuck can join where physiology and total theatre time allow, and is staged where they don’t. The deciding voice belongs to your surgeon and the anaesthesia team, and the sequence is put in writing before you fly.
It is fitted before you leave the hospital and worn day and night in the early weeks, then on a schedule Dr. Akçay sets for you, typically tapering over about six weeks. It shapes the result; treat it as part of the surgery.
Around day seven — after Dr. Akçay has examined you and cleared you, not before. Some plans need a few nights more, and you’ll know that before you book flights. Your complete medical records travel home with you, in English, so your own doctor can read every detail.
Surgery and anaesthesia, the hospital night, your compression garment, the recovery hotel, all VIP transfers, your coordinator, all post-op checks in Istanbul, medication, and the 12-month follow-up programme. It all sits on one written, itemised quote, and that quote does not change.
Because of where the operation happens, not how. Few cities in the world perform more surgery than Istanbul, and that scale, together with local operating costs, is what brings the price down. Nothing on the clinical side is trimmed to get there. A European Board-certified surgeon working where first-rate care is simply cheaper to deliver still leaves you a saving large enough to cover your flights several times over.
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A final word
There is no rush on our side. Weigh the surgeon and the protocol before you weigh the quotes, and ask us anything along the way. If fat transfer isn’t the right operation for your body, Dr. Akçay will tell you that too.
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