RVV85, if you qualify for FAA ATP or SA ATP/L, get it done and go to Middle East. They hire people with lower times for offshore and the ATP would ensure you won't get stuck as SIC and easier 'conversion'.
Presume you don't have any other 'handy' nationality/citizenship.
Still hard to believe you won't get break onto turbines 'back home'.
OP, if you had 100hrs on type, (small pistons) you could have it added to licence, obviously subject to flight test, but no 5hr course etc.