Murat Alsaç, a co-founder of EsteNove, a hair transplant clinic in Istanbul.
Christopher Elliott
While many tourists in Istanbul marvel at the Hagia Sophia or explore the Grand Bazaar, Mark Pollard had a different kind of souvenir in mind: a fuller head of hair.
“Istanbul is incredible, it’s like a museum,” says Pollard, an author and public speaker from Washington, D.C. “But it also has a reputation for having some of the best hair transplant clinics in the world. So I decided to get one while I was doing some work in Bulgaria and Georgia last year.”
In addition to his procedure, Pollard walked around the city and tried the famous Turkish restaurants, caught a soccer game, took a ferry to Moda, and made friends with some of the…
