Turkey is 2.6 times larger than Italy.
Area: 301,340 km2 World Factbook
Population: 61,680,122 (July 2014) World Factbook
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a unitary parliamentary republic in Southern Europe. To the north, Italy borders France, Switzerland, Austria, and Slovenia, and is approximately delimited by the Alpine watershed, enclosing the Po Valley and the Venetian Plain. Wikipedia
Area: 783,562 km2 World Factbook
Population: 81,619,392 (July 2014) World Factbook
Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a contiguous transcontinental country. Its larger part is in Western Asia, and the smaller in Southeastern Europe. Wikipedia