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The Spaniards Who Travel to Turkey to Break Their Legs and Grow a Few Centimeters Tall

Imagine landing in Istanbul not to explore the Blue Mosque or the Great Bazaar, but with the aim of having a surgeon deliberately break your two femurs. It sounds like a horror movie scene. It’s what hundreds of men do every year in clinics like Dr. Yunus or WannaBeWorker, paying between 20,000 and 50,000 euros for a procedure that promises to add between 6 and 10 centimeters of stature in exchange for a year of pain, crutches, physiotherapy and…
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Imagine landing in Istanbul not to explore the Blue Mosque or the Great Bazaar, but with the aim of having a surgeon deliberately break your two femurs. It sounds like a horror movie scene. It’s what hundreds of men do every year in clinics like Dr. Yunus or WannaBeWorker, paying between 20,000 and 50,000 euros for a procedure that promises to add between 6 and 10 centimeters of stature in exchange for a year of pain, crutches, physiotherapy and…

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periodistadigital.com broke the news on Sunday, May 10, 2026.
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