Maltepe Medical Journal is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution

Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) (https://budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/) definition of open access.