Yaaaay, slm.tbt! Congrats on your approval!
Our visa office is also Ankara. They put on their website that 80% of cases get finalized in 5 months. However, they just received the immigration files from the recently closed Damascus office. I believe it's only the Iranian files that were transfered to Ankara. I remember reading that someone in the recently transfered thread (Damascus/Ankara) made the claim that the processin time is now 12-15 months. But to be honest, I find it really difficult to believe that processing time will triple. I'd expect an increase though. So as you say, we will see how things go.
There is no Ankara thread. Maybe we should start one?