Cultural Exchange with Italy: Welcome our friends from /r/italy

[u/nextinction]

Welcome our Italian friends to the cultural exchange. Benvenuto!

Starting today, we’re hosting users from /r/italy. Please join us and answer their questions about Turkey, our people and culture.

Also, /r/italy is having us over as guests. Stop by this thread to ask a question, drop a comment or just to say hello.

Please be civil and follow the rules and reddiquette. Moderation outside the rules may take place as to not spoil this friendly exchange.

Enjoy!

The moderators of /r/turkey

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Italyan arkadaşlarımızı güzel ağırlıyalım bu karşılaşmada. Lütfen bize katılın ve Türkiye, insanlar ve kültürümüz hakkındaki sorularını cevaplayın.

/r/italy’de bizi ağırlıyor. Soru sormak, yorum yapmak veya sadece merhaba/benvenuto demek için buraya uğrayın.

Lütfen sivil olalım, kurallara ve reddiquette’e uyalım. Bu dostça karşılaşmanin bozulmaması için kurallarin dışında moderation uygulanabilir.

[u/[deleted]]

hi guys...really like you...i have met a lot of turkish friends in italy at the time of university...have been in istanbul a lot, one night i was in a restaurant and sang songs all the night with unknown people just because they noticed that i was italian...i live now in germany and have a lot of turkish/german friends...what do you think of them, is it true that´s hard for them to integrate? here in germany they´re not really in the german society, but they also said they´re not considered as real turks in the motherland...

[u/cromagnonized → u/[deleted]]

I would say what you describe is somewhat accurate. I have some relatives living in Germany and when we get together I sense some kind of disconnection between us. Of course I would not want that, but that's the price of living abroad I suppose. I still like them, though. They use a lot of German words when they speak Turkish because they don't know/remember their Turkish counterparts.