I've seen most of those courses in Turkey, and played a couple.
The ones I played were National Golf Club ("designed" by David Feherty), the first course in Belek, and where I did the grow-in back in the 20th century. Also the Antalya Golf Club (actually designed by European Golf Design), which came along soon after right across the street.
Others I rode with the various superintendents, all of them Turks, and most of whom I consider friends. Carya (Thompson & Lobb, mostly Lobb, I think), Cornelia (Faldo), Antalya Pasha and Sultan courses (EGD), and Nobilis (Dave Thomas) are all worth a look. My good friend David Jones did an outstanding job on a tight site at Kaya.
The terrain in that part of the world is superbly suited to golf. It is within a kilometer of the sea, with a Mediterranean climate, sandy soil, covered in pine and scrub, with lots of dune-like undulation. There is a range of high mountains, snow-capped for the winter high season, opposite the sea which lends a grand backdrop to the landscape. Really, it's criminal to do anything sub-standard in that area.
The maintenance hardly varies from course to course. You will find 419 bermuda tees and fairways, with Tifdwarf greens, all lovingly watered and overseeded for the winter. It's totally resort orientated, and the standard of course presentation can be favorably compared to the likes of Orlando, if that’s your cup of tea, and for a lot of people it is. The high season runs from October through May.
Two exceptions to the maintenance are: Nobilis, where they maintain bentgrass greens. This is a big advantage if you happen to be there in the autumn, while all the other courses are going through the overseeding-teething pains.
The other is Lykia, the Perry Dye creation, which is done entirely in paspalum, but you won’t know that if you visit from October-May, when it’s overseeded just like everywhere else.
In my (and others’) opinion, Lykia World is the biggest failure in Turkey. The sight was all natural linksland, sand dunes, grasses, and scrub, hard by the beach. Perry Dye took bulldozers in there and flattened corridors for narrow fairways, leaving everything outside of those corridors all but unplayable. Huge, deep bunkers and waste areas make it penal, with hardly any options. A one-in-a-thousand opportunity squandered. Nice paspalum, though.
Plus, all the other courses in Belek are in a 10 km. radius of each other, practically strung out end to end along the coast. Lykia sits on the other side of an estuary, which necessitates a 45 minute drive, even though it’s about 5 miles as the crow flies. Add to that, the road in is 20 km. of unpaved potholes through underdeveloped farmland, and access is a real chore. I know this wouldn’t matter if there were a master piece on the far side, but to see a pig’s ear sown from silk, it isn’t worth it, except, as I say, for some real fine paspalum, in the season.
The Turks are friendly and welcoming, the prices less than those of Spain or Portugal, though I enjoy more the panache of the western Med. Food is great in Turkey, as long as you’re happy with Turkish food, and don’t look for any other ethnicities. Efes beer is the best in country, but insist on it being ice cold. The wines are improving, but have a way to go. And bring your own women.