President Erdoğan announced that 38 thousand non-physician personnel will be hired. The announcement was made at a ceremony. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke at the Istanbul University Hospital Çapa Campus Collective Groundbreaking and Mass Opening Ceremony. Erdoğan said that the Turkish flag raised by Hikmet Bey and his comrades on March 14, 1919, was a declaration to the entire world that the nation would never bow to captivity.
The Istanbul University medical campus was built on an area of 44 thousand square meters. There are 186 beds, 39 of which are intensive care beds. Outpatient services have begun. The Esenyurt hospital, meanwhile, has 200 patient beds and 50 intensive care beds, including neonatal, and hospital safety will be ensured with 74 isolators.
Erdoğan noted that in the past, there were periods when those without money could not receive services, those who did not pay “knife money” could not undergo surgery, and patients were held hostage. This picture has been reversed. Erdoğan stated that this picture has been reversed through projects implemented over 24 years and that 223 billion lira worth of healthcare facilities have been put into service. Erdoğan noted that while people used to go abroad for treatment, patients now come to Turkey from all corners of the world, adding that the country will be turned into a global center of attraction in healthcare.
In his remarks on healthcare, Erdoğan also gave the public the good news that a job posting for the recruitment of 38 thousand non-physician personnel will be published before the end of 2026. The Ministry of Health will announce the schedule.
Why it matters
This recruitment opens a direct employment channel for non-physician personnel candidates awaiting appointment in the healthcare sector; the commitment that the job posting will be published by the end of 2026 also places a concrete time limit on this wait. Since the newly opened capacity of hundreds of beds in Çapa and Esenyurt depends on nurses and support staff as much as on physicians to actually function, the staffing expansion stands as the complementary leg of hospital investments. Erdoğan’s reiteration of his goal of making Turkey a global center of attraction in healthcare turns the recruitment into part not only of domestic services but also of the ambition to host patients from abroad. In contrast, the distribution of the positions across specialties and the application requirements are not yet known; these details will be clarified with the schedule to be announced by the Ministry of Health.
Background
Erdoğan is not a new name in the FikirPilot archive: we have published 26 stories mentioning this name in the last 90 days; the most recent is dated October 14, 2026.