The presence of Bancroftion filariasis in Turkey was shown for the first time in 1953 in Alanya, a village at the Mediterranean coast In a survey undertaken to investigate the epidemiology of Wuchereriasis bancrofti in this village, the prevalence of the disease was found to be 0.67..Beyond this endemic area, filariasis cases caused by Wuchereria bancrofti were also encountered in some other parts of Turkey Such a case was recently diagnosed from Diyarbakir, a city in South East Anatolia.