Elif Cansın Şenol

ITALY & ITALIANS

According to young population of Turkey

What does the young population think about Italy ?

Italian Foods20%

Historical Places 11%

Art11%

Architecture9%

Cinema9%

Handsome Boys and

Beautiful Girls7%

History9%

Football9%

Mafia5%

Language5% Fashion

5%

What about Italians?

Oh, they are sim-ilar to Turks!

33%

They know how to live well!

7%Kind3%They speak so loud!

10%

They like to eat!10%

Passion/ Exciting13%

Friendly/ Sincere13%

Bad at English3%

Prejudiced3%

Not hygienic3%

WHY DO THEY THINK LIKE THAT ?..

POSS

IBLE

REA

SON

S • Geography• Climate (Hot-summer

mediterranean climate)• Food Culture

• History• Sharing same land in the past

Common Food Cultures

OLIVE OIL

‘This geographical area broadly follows the

distribution of the olive tree, which provides one of the

most distinctive features of the region’s cooking, olive oil.’

Using Tomatoes..

And using same ingredients in different shapes…

We even have the same meals like…

…delicious arrosticini & şiş kebap!

So... What about history?

ETRUSCANS

The Etruscan civilization is the modern name given to a powerful, wealthy and refined civilization of ancient Italy in the area corresponding roughly to Tuscany, western Umbria and northern Lazio.

Etruscans Origins Theories

Northern Theory

Indigenous Theory

Migration Theory

Alberto Piazza

• Italian human geneticist• Professor of Human

Genetics at the University of Turin.

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Elif Cansın Şenol

SOURCES

• http://www.pnas.org/content/113/25/6886.full

• http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jun/18/science/sci-etruscans18

• http://www.dailysabah.com/nation/2014/07/15/turkey-has-eus-youngest-population-tuik

• http://www.livescience.com/44376-italian-culture.html