I love it when racist nutcases have their ignorance exposed, and here’s a story that really warmed my heart: a few years ago, Austrian right-wing populist party FPÖ issued a press release calling for a return to “traditional Austrian cuisine” (i.e. white-people food), citing the “regrettable proliferation of kebab shops” (i.e. brown-people food) throughout Austria. In the quest to determine just what makes makes food “traditionally Austrian,” Manuela Honsig-Erlenburg made an interesting point that Wiener schnitzel was not invented in Vienna, as one might expect, but rather in Istanbul. So there you go, nationalists— next time you take a bite of that lovely breaded cutlet, remember that you’re eating Turkish food.
And yes, it remains a popular dish in Turkey to this day. You can get schnitzel at pretty much any restaurant in Turkey, including at fast food outlets. My favourite lunch place up the road makes a schnitzel sandwich that is out of this world. Link