Our Turkish fried eggs recipe uses butter because we have made it as a treat. It is a common way to fry eggs in Turkey. Another way to fry them is to use olive oil. Obviously, there are more health benefits to frying your eggs in this way. If you like, you can use a mix of butter and olive oil. This is the mix sometimes used to pour over another popular Turkish eggs recipe, çılbır. This is a soft poached egg as opposed to a fried egg.