Was deployed there while in the Marine Corps a couple of times. Horrible for an Air force expeditionary Airbase, great for the Marines though. Couldn’t trust the Turks to protect us so we bought shotguns off base and kept them in our tents (Turks wouldn’t allow Marines to bring weapons into the country). Air force made us put them in the Armory at least once every 24 hrs. So we would turn them in and get back in line to check them out, that lasted about three days then they said we could keep our weapons. Good shotguns (Hugla ), lousy ammo. Found one guy who would sell us Israeli ammo, hypocrites
Yep I had my own shotgun and found the dove hunting to be a hell of a kick. The Turks would fetch your downed birds in exchange for a tasty treat or two. We had some decent dove-ke-bob recipes.