Kosovo Ambassador to Ankara, Ilir Dugolli confirms to Albanian media this tragic news. The victims, originally from Kosovo, are Nazmije Dograjan, 64, Hatixhe Dogruja, 70, and her husband Bajram Dogruja, 73.
These Albanians from Kosovo, who had fled Pristina since 1956 and settled in Izmir, could not survive the tragic earthquake.