Türkiye as a sourcing base: independent medicine sourcing support

Why Türkiye is a sourcing base at all

Turkish medicine prices are set by a state mechanism: a fixed pharmaceutical euro rate rather than the spot exchange rate, a reference price derived from the lowest ex-factory price in a designated basket of EU member states, and a mandatory public discount on top. The result is a structurally lower price level for the same originator packs, produced by the same manufacturers, sold for the domestic market.

We publish no price for any medicine. The mechanism is a published fact about a state system; what we can achieve for a specific enquiry is given only in an individual written reply. Read the official lists yourself and compare.

İTS: verifying a pack yourself, at handover

Türkiye's İlaç Takip Sistemi records every pack at every change of custody, at serial level, as a mandatory state system. Each pack carries a printed karekod encoding GTIN, serial number, batch and expiry.

For a buyer, the practical point is that this can be checked in person, on the pack, at the moment of handover — against the pharmacy invoice, not against a shipping document from a party you have never met. A pack that does not reconcile should be refused on the spot.

How medicine actually moves: procurement and in-person handover

• We are not a distributor, exporter or shipper, and we hold no GDP certificate. We locate and procure medicines ourselves from licensed pharmacies in Türkiye.
• The medicine is handed over in person to the buyer or their named representative. There is no courier consignment arranged by us.
• For 2–8 °C medicines, the pack travels accompanied in a qualified cold box for the journey to handover, with a calibrated data logger shown to the buyer at that point.
• Moving the medicine out of Türkiye and into the destination country — including any import permit or licensed-importer requirement — is the buyer's own route, discussed honestly before we procure anything.

Who uses this kind of support

Hospital procurement and specialty pharmacy

Individual written replies, pack verification at in-person handover, tender responses researched case by case.

Private clinics and oncology centres

Single-patient sourcing, accompanied cold-box handling, the named-patient route where the product is unlicensed locally.

Licensed importers and distributors

Procurement and in-person handover in Türkiye, with their own import route and licensing arranged separately.

Pharmaceutical wholesalers

Procurement of specific lines and in-person handover to their representative in Türkiye.

What to check before relying on any Turkish sourcing route

• Whether the party actually procures the medicine from a licensed pharmacy, or simply claims to — ask which pharmacy dispensed a given pack.
• Whether the İTS karekod, batch and expiry on the pack can be checked in person against the pharmacy invoice at handover.
• Whether the party claims to be a licensed wholesaler, distributor or holder of a distribution authorisation. We do not, and any sourcing party that does should be able to show the licence against the regulator's own register.
• Whether prices are published anywhere. Publishing a price for a prescription medicine is advertising, and in several destination markets it is prohibited — it tells you how that party treats regulatory boundaries generally.