I bought a 5 ft tall Brown Turkey last July with few branches but no fruit and hope will have some fruits to taste this summer.
My question is how can I tell if mine is English Brown Turkey which is supposed to be good taste or just common Brown Turkey but taste bland ? Is English Brown Turkey better than common Brown Turkey ?

Hi pacifica,
Post the leaves and the fruits, and I'll tell you if you have the true BT - the original one .

All others are misnamed trees, probably because lots of people (newbies) think that fig = BT - that is that, there is just one sort of figs ...

BrownTurkey (same name in French) is well known for its big breba crop and its cold hardiness ... Cold hardiness is the reason for its spreading in eastern France and central Europe.
I just wished the brebas would taste better. They are a bit on the watery side and with a weak vine taste, flesh is soft,not crunchy ... But at the time they ripen, I barely have other figs to eat ... So I'll keep my tree for now.
I just wished that the maincrop would ripen earlier and more constantly . I get some decent figs from my BT, and some decent but odd ripe fruits; they still taste good (like inside, they look half developed ) ... As I already said, I'll keep my tree for now ...

In the long run, "healthy Longue d'aout" may get the spot (and most of the the spots in fact) ... Unless one of the other strains I'm still testing, wins some of them.

Both of these are supposedly BT. The leaves are quite different. Any thoughts on which is legit?

Well, Your brown turkey is breaking buds, right? so you will probably know that it bears tasty figs in 3-4 months, Our area have cooler weather, Fig trees wake up late at May, it needs 3-4 months to sweet up figs,  We have August ( one month) of Hot sun to sweet up some heat sensitively type of figs, With such short climate, it is not easy task at all,  Many known sweet fig trees bear bland figs here, Did roberto tell you, he has couple fig trees in front of his house, they never bear sweet figs?, I heard that "Vern brown turkey" bears sweet figs in our area, not really know that it is true or not, I saw it at local Nursery. 

Yes my Brown Turkey is breaking buds for now but I do not think that I will get some fruits ti taste until June/July since this is the first year of my BT.
Roberto did let me pick two of his purple figs from one of his other fig tree located on the right hand side of his house and it was good taste. Again he said he did not know the name of that fig tree even I asked.