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Top 25 Drug development and research companies based in Türkiye
RevenueBase identified 112 drug development and research companies headquartered in Türkiye as of September 2026 and tracks 11,693 professional contacts across them, including 3,471 with verified work emails. Istanbul is the largest hub.
This list covers drug development and research companies headquartered in Türkiye, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest drug development and research companies based in Türkiye
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,632 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Abdi İbrahim, Turkish pharmaceutical industry leader, was founded in 1912 in Küçükmustafapaşa, Istanbul at a small pharmacy, by Pharmacist Abdi İbrahim Bey who had started the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,697 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1983 by Pharmacist Erol Toksöz, Sanovel stands as one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in Türkiye.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,111 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “World Medicine Ilac Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi was established in Turkey in 2011 as an affiliate of the Corporate Group of World Medicine.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,054 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 894 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Menarini Group is a leading international pharmaceutical and diagnostics company, present in 140 countries worldwide, with a turnover of 4,37 Billion euro and more than…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 426 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1975 with 100% domestic capital, DROGSAN is a pioneer Turkish pharmaceutical company with 45 years of valuable experience in the pharma industry focusing on R&D…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Yenilikçi bir ilaç şirketi olarak Novartis, hastaların, sağlık çalışanlarının ve toplumların ciddi hastalıklar karşısında güçlenmesini sağlamak amacıyla, insanların yaşamlarını…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MENE Health Group (MHG) is an integrated solution provider to research driven biotechnology,pharmaceutical, medical device industries, universities, and authorities since 2002.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Daiichi Sankyo (TSE: 4568) is a global healthcare company committed to becoming a trusted healthcare innovator, transforming the lives of people through its strength in science…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ena Farma was established in 2008 in order to meet the need of consumers in natural ways with the herbal products, which are abundant in Turkey.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Trustlife Labs mainly focus on the use of medicinal chemistry and synthetic organic chemistry to produce novel compounds for therapeutic targets to treat diseases.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ideogen is an international pharmaceutical & biotechnology company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “İmuneks Farma; İlaç, Gıda takviyesi ve Tıbbi cihaz alanında inovatif ürün portföyüne sahip, kökeni; 1923 senesinde kurulan Mustafa Nevzat İlaç Sanayi firmasına dayanan bir sağlık…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Elixir was established in 2014 as a pharmaceutical research and development company, aiming to serve the global pharmaceutical industry with its high-technology laboratories…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A world class R&D and analytical services organization, contract research and analytical services to provide tailored, innovative solutions to pharma industry requirements such as…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tawalu Pharma is a medicine manufacturer and developer company established in Turkey” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to provide creative, user-centric, and solution-focused consultancy services to the pharmaceutical industry and stakeholders worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Etkinliği kanıtlanmış zengin içerikli doğal ürünleri günümüz insanın ihtiyaçlarını karşılayacak şekilde yenilikçi ve bilimsel çalışma anlayışımız ile bir araya getirerek yeni bir…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sankara Brain and Biotechnology Center has taken its place in Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Avcılar Campus, Technology Development Zone and carries out research and product…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GePharm is a privately held pharmaceutical company that aims to bring new and innovative therapy alternatives to Turkey to increase quality of life of patients who suffer from…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “NER Medical Research Consulting is specialized in medical research planning and training in late phase development of pharmaceuticals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CERN AR-GE KLİNİK ARAŞTIRMALAR MEDİKAL YÖNETİM HİZMETLERİ BİLİŞİM TEKNOLOJİLERİ ELEKTRONİK YAZILIM DANIŞMANLIK TİCARET LİMİTED ŞİRKETİ: Yürürlükteki teknoloji geliştirme bölgeleri…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We exist to revive health and self esteem of all through biotechnology and smarter healthcare.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DNC Pharma rekabetçi bir ortamda modern teknolojiler vasıtasıyla yeni ilaçların daha hızlı piyasaya sunulabilmesi için gerekli uzun ve karmaşık ürün geliştirme ve ruhsatlandırma…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: drug development and research companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names drug development and research companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of drug development and research companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name drug development and research companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Drug development and research companies based in Türkiye at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Türkiye, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Türkiye, over 112 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among drug development and research companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Türkiye whose own description of what they do matches “drug development and research companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names drug development and research companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among drug development and research companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Türkiye are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,471 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Drug development and research companies by metro
- Drug development and research companies in Istanbul31
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names drug development and research companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many drug development and research companies are there based in Türkiye?
RevenueBase identified 112 drug development and research companies headquartered in Türkiye as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Abdi Ibrahim Pharmaceuticals, headquartered in Istanbul, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most drug development and research companies?
Istanbul leads with 31 headquartered companies, followed by Ankara (21) and Cankaya (4).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 3,471 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 112 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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