funnily enough I can sometimes pick out the regional accents in Brits when they speak Turkish.
Back on track though. I think there is no excuse to someone not knowing Turkish after being here for so long. I mean ffs I learnt from zero to conversational Turkish in 6 weeks and that was when I was living in Calis, although it was winter time, and there were no english channels back then apart from the greek one, and my teacher was living with me, oh and she was a blonde from Izmir.