Does Turkey even have much in the way of good pasture? I imagine the terrain is similar to neighboring Greece? Historically the dominant livestock for Greeks were goats and sheep for meat and dairy:
Pastoral farming has been a feature of the Greek scene since antiquity. The geomorphology of the area, climatic conditions and the prevailing systems of agricultural production in lowland regions at any given time have all been conducive to the development and preservation of this productive...
pastoralismjournal.springeropen.com
The terrain is too mountainous and overall rocky for all that much cattle. In fact, this caused a bit of a snafoo when asking some Greeks if they ate a lot of red meat because to Greeks red meat = beef. They don't count mutton and lamb as that for some reason so they severely underreported how much meat traditional Greeks actually consume; a lot.
Still fucked, though. Dangling their natural diet before them like that, necessity or not. Anything for profit.
balkaninsight.com
