Italian press rains down praise on Turkey exhibit in Rome
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Oluşturulma Tarihi: Şubat 01, 2007 13:57
The "Turkey: 7,000 Years of History" exhibition which opened earlier in January in Rome's Quirnale Presidential Palace in honor of the 150th anniversary of Turkish-Italian diplomatic ties is receiving extraordinary amounts of praise from the Italian press.
Covering 7,000 years of Anatolian civilizations, starting from the neolithic period and stretching all the way to modern times, the exhibit includes pieces from the Ankara Anatolian Civilizations Museum and Istanbul's Topkapi, Archeological, and Turkish Islamic Arts museums. Critics in Italy are calling it one of the most important cultural events in recent times in terms of presenting Turkey within Italy itself. A commentary from the Italian newspaper Il Giornale is as follows:
"Turkey is like a matrushka doll which holds within it several thousand years of civilizations. Prior to the arrival of the Selcuks and Ottomans, in other words, before the real Turks arrived, these lands already carried the traces of thousands of years of cultures. The Turks contributed to this civilization a tolerant and forward-thinking empire the level of which could not even be imagined in terms of many other recent European states."
"Turkey is like a matrushka doll which holds within it several thousand years of civilizations. Prior to the arrival of the Selcuks and Ottomans, in other words, before the real Turks arrived, these lands already carried the traces of thousands of years of cultures. The Turks contributed to this civilization a tolerant and forward-thinking empire the level of which could not even be imagined in terms of many other recent European states."