ROME (A.A) - One of Italian daily newspapers promoted Turkishwomen in its weekly women's supplement on Friday.The Corriere della Sera published a file about Turkish women in its weeklywomen's supplement Io Donna.Businesswoman Guler Sabanci, anchorperson Burcu Esmersoy, designer ZeynepFadillioglu, journalist and author Ipek Calislar, actresses Songul Oden and LaleMansur were the famous Turkish women the newspaper interviewed with.The Italian newspaper's supplement allocated six pages to the story titled"The Energy of Neo-Ottoman Women".In the story, the paper said women had a determining role in the Turkishsociety, and Turkish women were pioneering cultural and aesthetic changes.The newspaper defined Guler Sabanci as one of the five strongest women inthe world according to the Fortune magazine, and a supporter of Turkey's EuropeanUnion (EU) membership bid.The Italian paper quoted Sabanci as saying,"We will not need Europe, butEurope will need us soon."The Corriere della Sera described Fadillioglu as the most famous Turkisharchitect and designer who prepared the Sakirin Mosque project in the east ofIstanbul and quoted her as saying that a new aesthetic concept was developing,and it was now possible to reach Ottoman roots.The newspaper referred to Ipek Calislar as an author writing the biographyof Ataturk's spouse Latife Hanim, whereas defined Burcu Esmersoy as one of themost popular sports anchorpeople in Turkey.Also, the Corriere della Sera said Songul Oden became a diva with her TVseries"Gumus"(Silver), which made her one of the most successful modern Turkishwomen.The paper referred to actress Lale Mansur's remarks about headscarf. Mansurtold the supplement that women wearing headscarf were feeling themselves muchbetter today, and the real struggle should be launched to enable more girls tohave education.Corriera della Sera is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan. It isamong the oldest and most reputable Italian newspapers, founded on Sunday, March5, 1876, by Eugenio Torelli Viollier.(BRC-CE)