Liver transplantation (LT) is the definitive treatment option for end-stage liver diseases. The first successful LT was performed in the US by Thomas Starzl in 1967. The first successful solid organ transplantation in our country was a living related kidney transplantation performed in 1975 by Haberal. In 1979 the Turkish parlament was enacted the law about organ transplantation with great efforts of Dr Haberal. After clinical and experimental studies the first liver transplantation in Turkey was also performed by Dr Haberal in 1988. This was also the first successful deceased-donor liver transplantation for Middle East region and North Africa. The first succesful partial living donor liver transplantation in children were performed by the same team in March 15, 1990. In April 24, 1990 Dr Haberal also performed the first successful partial living-donor liver transplantation in adult in the world. Two years later in May 16, 1992 he performed the first succesful liver and kidney transplantation from the same living donor in the world. After these pioneering efforts liver transplantation activities widened all over Turkey and liver transplantation centers reached to 30. According to data of Ministary of Health; nowadays, in our country 2065 patients are waiting for liver transplantation. Between January 2002 and June 2013, 6091 liver transplantations were performed in Turkey. 4020 (66%) of these were living-donor LT and 2071(34%) were deceased-donor LT. Between January 2011 and June 2013, 2514 patients underwent liver transplantation, and 437(17,3%) of them passed away due to various reasons. For the year 2012, the liver transplantation numbers for Turkey had been exceeded the limit of 1000/year. According to these increasing numbers Turkey will be one of the most populer country in a couple of years with its high volume and high survival rates of over 90% for the first year.