Turkish Honourary Consul in Macedonia Omer Sulejman points out that the Macedonian government, individual citizens, and the country's Turkish community acted particularly generously during the last devastating earthquake in Izmit near Istanbul in 1999, in which 20,000 people died.
Počasni konzul Turske u Makedoniji Omer Sulejman ukazuje kako su makedonska vlada, građani pojedinačno i turska zajednica u zemlji bili posebno darežljivi tijekom posljednjeg razornog potresa u Izmiru, u blizini Istanbula, 1999. godine, u kojem je poginulo 20.000 ljudi.