By Mehmet Enes Beşer ASEAN’s 2026 report on health and wellness tourism arrived just as Türkiye was formally accorded Dialogue Partner status. The coincidence creates an easy but misleading agenda: combine Türkiye’s successful international-patient industry with Southeast Asia’s expanding medical-travel market. Ankara should resist making that the centerpiece. Türkiye will be more useful to ASEAN, and will build a more ...








