Overview
- Mentor Rama, a British citizen originally from Albania, collapsed at his hotel in Istanbul’s Sisli district after undergoing a hair transplant and separate dental treatment.
- He was taken by ambulance to Seyrantepe Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital and was pronounced dead at about 4:30pm on November 11.
- Police and the Istanbul Province Health Directorate are investigating, and clinic staff have been questioned; local reports say the case is being treated as suspected “reckless homicide.”
- An autopsy was carried out at the Forensic Medicine Institute, and his body has been repatriated to his family, with no official cause of death released.
- The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office says it is supporting the family as Turkey’s booming hair-transplant sector—estimated at roughly 60% of the global market—draws scrutiny after at least 28 British deaths tied to elective procedures since 2019.