But the relations have a deeper cultural and historical context in Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, who spent his youth in Macedonia and was educated at an Ottoman military school in Bitola, adding an emotional dimension to how Ankara -- and the Turkish people -- view Macedonia.
Ipak, odnosi imaju dublji kulturalni i povijesni kontekst. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, osnivač moderne Turske, proveo je mladost u Makedoniji, a obrazovao se na otomanskoj vojnoj školi u Bitoli, što dodaje emotivnu dimenziju načinu na koji Ankara, kao i turski narod, doživljavaju Makedoniju.