Aslı Akyavaş Pamuk remembers when Turkey was still thought of as “sun, sea, sand.” The year was 2005 and Anadolu Medical Center Hospital had just become operational in Gebze. Health tourists traveled to Turkey for hair transplants and thermal hot springs, sometimes dental treatments or in vitro fertilization. But Anadolu had bigger dreams. “The hospital had a vision to become a center for excellence in oncology and cancer treatment, not only in Turkey but [among] neighboring countries as well,”