yes i can confirm:
very unfair, unprofessional and lousy assessment at THY:
- this is not an airline, this is the turkish airforce mafia; a foreign captain gets called for the sim at a specific time but has to wait over 4 hours because they first screen the ex airforce copilots. ( kissing one another upon meeting... )
- turkish FOs ( also with other airlines ) write all PF ( pilot flying time ) as PIC time in their logbooks. And claim this is in accordance with management and the turkish DGCA...
then they upgrade, fly like 200 hours and off they go and pass screenings at THY as direct entry captains.. and out of a sudden they have over 2000 PIC hours...
- one Turkish company with just 20 B737... had over 10 tailstrikes last year...and many more incidents..
and when the ICAO language proficiency test would be done correctly, over 50% of turkish pilots would fly domestic only...
anyway, all the best for anyone out there who likes to join a turkish carrier...