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http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_maps/middleeast.php

Click on one of the flags in Turkey to hear.(then press play of course.)

[Freddie Miles]

That Izmir speaker sounds practically Russian to me. ( It must be his background in German.)
One thing I have noticed in the Ankara speaker,as well as in class, is the tendency for English learners to annuciate each letter as a sound and ignoring the fact that there are letter combinations which produce a single sound. "Ask her to Buring.. five thick sulabs " for example.