This paper presents a brief survey on translated Turkish literature in Italian. Italy and Turkey, two Mediterranean countries that are geographically not too distant, have had long historical, commercial, and cultural ties. However, despite the considerably high number of translations from Italian into Turkish since the 1870s, the flow of translations from Turkish literature into Italian, which started only in 1923, has been slow until the 2000s. This paper examines the position of Turkish literature in Italian based on a bibliography of translated works; discussing at the same time several issues that arise while compiling a bibliography of translated works.