Acknowledgments

We also wished to acknowledge the individuals and institutions that have supported our work over the years.

We could not have come this far without their voluntary support; our heartfelt thanks to them all!

With special thanks to:

Ali Cindoruk

Aslıhan Demirtaş

Dr. Ayça Akça Uçkun

Bediz Yılmaz

Bornova Olive Research Institute Directorate

Bulut Renas Kaçan

Ferdi Akarsu

Dr. Fatih Özden

Gökhan Çilak

Hatay Olive Research Institute Directorate

Itri Levent Erkol

Kenan Dursun

Dr. Mustafa Tan

Orkun Doğan

Silvia Rota

Prof. Dr. Uygun Aksoy

Dr. Ümmühan Tibet

Yasmina Lokmanoğlu

Institutions and Communities:

Adil Gıda Community

Akhisar Chamber of Agriculture

ASKEV Bilginer-Melin Ayvalık Art, Culture, and Education Foundation

Ayna Cunda Restaurant

Aydın Commodity Exchange

Bandırma Chamber of Commerce

Çanakkale Municipality

Eppek

Erdek Chamber of Commerce

Gemlik Commodity Exchange

Gömeç Municipality

Gömeç Olive Growers Association

South Aegean Olive Growers Association

Marmarabirlik

Menteşe Municipality

Muğla Metropolitan Municipality

Postane Galata

Slow Food Fethiye

Slow Food Gaziantep

Slow Food Marmara Island

Slow Food Earth Market Muğla

Slow Food Ölmez Ağaç

Slow Food Tarsus Earth Market Association

Slow Food Urfa

TEMA

Tarsus Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Tarsus Commodity Exchange

Tarsus Municipality

Ancient Olive Trees Association

Individuals:

Dr. Aişe Deliboran

Ali Kürşat

Ali Ronay

Angelo Di Conte

Deniz Boltaç

Destina Pütün

Dilşen Oktay Ertem

Edwin Clarke

Elif Arzu Yıldız

Elisa de Michelis

Emine Ceylan

Prof. Dr. Engin Ertan

Erdoğan Şentürk

Esra Başak

Ezgi Güven

Francesca Baldereschi

Fuat Togo

Güher Mörel

Gürsel Tonbul

Hatice Aktürk

Hüseyin Kuşçu

Prof. Dr. İbrahim Ortaş

İrem Aksu

Lemye Şahin

Levent Sayan

Mehmet Pakkaner

Dr. Mehmet Ulaş

Prof. Dr. Mesut Kırmacı

Mine Pakkaner

Muhammed Badıllı

Muhammet Beyazdağ

Prof. Dr. Murat Türkeş

Prof. Dr. Murat Durukan

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kıralan

Mustafa Fındık

Dr. Mücahit Kıvrak

Müfit Karzek

Nadir Ernariçi

Nedim Atilla

Nilhan Aras

Nur Küçükyeşil

Dr. Nurhan Varol

R. Mert Eryürük

Sadık Boltaç

Songül Acar

Prof. Dr. Selçuk Aktürk

Prof. Dr. Sevil Acar

Dr. Şahnur Irmak

Dr. Tuba Öncül Abacıgil

Taylan Şenol

Tülay Saygılı

Dr. Tülin Pekcan

Yalçın Savaş

Prof. Dr. Zafer Yenal

Dr. Zafer Yaşar

Our producers, with their valuable contributions:

Elif Sena Yüksel

Bilgi Ekin Muğla

Mehmet Muğla

Elif Kalın

Mustafa Kalın

Gizem Aksu

Noyan Kalkan

Tuba Canpolat

İhsan Canpolat

Zeynep Budanur

Ahmet Budanur

Slow Food Project and the film production ‘Under the Immortal Tree’

Institutions and Communities:

AIMA - Ayvalık International Music Academy

Bodrum Municipality Directorate of Rural Services

Sabancı University - Ayvalık Küçükköy Creative Technologies Workshop

Slow Food Mahal

Slow Food Gökova

Slow Food Bodrum

Slow Food Earth Market Foça

Slow Food Karaburun

Slow Food Adana

Slow Food Bardacık

Individuals:

Ahmet Uhri

Arzu Özdemir

Deniz Kurtsan

Prof. Dr. Doğan Kantarcı

Ercan Yüksektepe

Ferit Uzunoğlu

Galip Ener

Gizem Yeşil

Gudrun Wagner

Gülümay Kireşçi

Gürkan Tetik

Haluk Özsoy

Hasan Açanal

Hülya Özcan Erkol

İsmail Tümay

İsmet Uçar

İstem Akkoyunlu

Mehmet Karaca

Mustafa Turan

Mustafa Ünlü

Mümtaz Ünlü

Necati Ova

Nejla Işık

Neval Aydın

Nilüfer (Müler) Yaman

Nurcan Dağlı Yürükoğlu

Ömer Atilla

Rabia Kahraman

Rezzan Çakır

Rüştü Yaman

Suna Özcan

Süleyman Kurnaz

Yusuf Küçük