@poldek77
Well IST(the part of the city that lies on the European continent) might be European. Even the city is nice(have been there couple of times), the general direction of this city is westerly(in terms of mindset). BUT it is a very, very, very small part of Turkey. And for sure THY is not having that mindset at the moment. Most likely they have to run lower on pilots till they start to think....
Regarding the language - of course, if you are dead desperate to man your aicraft the last thing is to think about turkish language. If that would be important to them then they would crew turks only. Simply not possible without a proper training academy, e.g. old LH style. No way to create enough pilots(especially experienced ones do not grow on trees, cadets yes) in so short time.
@alkor
Forget commuting if you talk narrow body. Exact the reason why I never went there. It seems the only nice contract is on the wide body like A330. Found once an advert in the net that actually had nice T's&C's (commuting, hotel paid in IST if there, etc.).