"As Valentine’s Day approaches, a survey conducted by the Ýstanbul Kültür University Art and Design Faculty Research Center among college students revealed that
74 percent of students have already fallen in love. Of the 74 percent, 41 percent have fallen in love once and 21 percent have fallen in love twice.

Faculty Dean Dr. Nükhet Güz, who headed the project, said, “Over 430 students were polled in the survey that was conducted to understand the perception of love among youth.” According to survey, the students said faithfulness was the first attribute come to mind when asked about “love and the Turkish woman,”
followed by jealousy and sensitivity. As for “love and men,” most said dishonesty was the first thing to come to mind.
In the “perception of love and Valentine’s Day” part of the survey, 6 percent first think of affection when talking about love, followed by the name of their beloved and then faithfulness. Sixty-three percent prefer to express their love face to face, 9 percent via telephone and 4 percent via e-mail.
The survey also pointed out that 18 percent of Turkish youth experienced first love at the age of 18, 13 percent experienced it at age 17 and 9 percent at age 16. When asked about Turkish society and love, 49 percent had no comment, 4 percent said they first think of the taboos and 2 percent said marriage. Asked what they were willing to do for their loved one, 13 percent said anything, 9 percent said die, and 4 percent said marriage. This figure revealed that the previous wild endeavors by lovers in the past no longer existed as the willingness to “do anything” was considered too ambiguous".

12.02.2007

Today’s Zaman

What a very strange survey Does it actually tell us anything or is it not about the same the world over?

Exactly libralady, this doesn't make much sense... I think they should be surveying older people, because I'm sure half these students in 5 years will surely refer to the "love" they had in college as lust.... weird study :-S