@ wizofoz hmm right and how many foreighn F/O,s working in your country mate? From what I have seen in Europe, only LH has a fair amount of foreigners working for them as F/O, but they are all required to speak German. Other companies like KLM / AF / BA will not even hire any low houred Ab İnitio that did not come from their own training schools or country.
Turkey has been been flash flooded by foreign ab initio F/O,s comming mainly from Germany and the Netherlands not speaking even a word of Turkish while none of these countries will ever hire a Turkish Ab İnitio even if he would speak their language and be fully qualified.
I praise the Turkish DGCA for their efforts of not being shortsighted.
they assume most of the foreigners will leave as soon as they get the chance for better opportunities in the Middle east, leaving the country short of experienced F/O,s that will be ready for Command upgrade in their respective companies.