Although the name isn't Turkish,kebap is very common and traditional food among Turkish peoples.
Turk is lived long
time as nomads,so they consumed mostly meats.So,in Ottomans meat is protected it's worth in Ottoman
kitchen.
Today that we referred fish,mutton,veal .etc is labelled as kebap in cookbooks at Ottomans.Mostly it is produced with mutton and veal,it can be produced by chicken meat too.Kebap is marinating with onion juice (we can also see tomato juice) before cooking.Cooking process is the most need to pay attention for part of making kebap.It can
cooked with barbecue,wood-burning oven and also LPG.In the cooking process,either their own juice or melted butter used for oiling.Another advise is,flour kebap ,so on the kebap it's become
shell,it's juice is prevented to going out.In Turkey,you can find kebap restaurant almost every county that have restaurant.