it seeks to profile key quality of care policies and benchmark the extent to which policies to monitor and improve quality in the turkish health system are being employed in describing the quality governance structure and the role of the ministry of health and affiliated organisations the chapter highlights how turkey needs to continue steps towards more devolved governance and work to align public hospital and public health system governance addressing the quality of inputs into the health system the chapter recommends that turkey continue the impressive work begun on quality standards and accreditation while working to build good patient safety and quality assurance systems the chapter concludes with a recommendation that turkey develop a coherent policy on how to strengthen the turkish information infrastructure to facilitate the use of quality indicators