Even in restaurants that Turkish people frequent, apart from lokantas, salad and rice are served as accompaniments, and perhaps grilled long green pepper. Simple fact is, Turkish people don't generally eat plain boiled vegetables, not in their cuisine. Vegetables are usually cooked with onion, garlic and tomatoes, sometimes with small pieces of meat, which is more like 'house' or lokanta food. Or fried as they do with cauliflower, and courgettes made into patties, known as mucver, and served as meze.