"The concerned institutions were sent to the territory in order to support the people aggrieved from the strong earthquake that took place in Izmir today", President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan informed in the statement written by him in this regard on his Twitter page, APA’s local bureau reports.
Meanwhile, chairman of Izmir Municipality Tunc Şoyer noted that destruction occurred in about 20 buildings as a result of the earthquake.