Macedonia Hardware Support Tender

Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency TKA carried out a project for the repair refurbishment and technical hardware installation of the Ottoman Archive unit of North Macedonias State Archives. TKA organized a ceremony upon the completion of the project. Within the scope of the project the following items were provided to the State Archives of North Macedonia central storage device for institutional archive data external discs laptops desktop computers professional and microfilm scanners of which North Macedonia had only one in its public institutions worktables book scanners and plotter printers. TKAs Vice President Mahmut evik Director of North Macedonia State Archives Emil Krsteski TKA employees representatives of Turkish institutions in the country and other guests participated in the ceremony. We will shed light on the futureTKAs Vice President Mahmut evik made a statement to press members and said that Ottoman Empire remained in this geography for about 500 years and developed a certain lifestyle in the region. He informed that since then more than 16 thousand tangible and intangible cultural products have been made. Saying that the two countries hold onto their shared history evik added We have undertaken the repair and refurbishment of the Ottoman archive which is a first and increased its capacity. Thus from now on we will shed light on the future. evik stated that they have been working for the last 18 years to unravel the Ottoman archives documents and registries transfer them to future generations and present them to the researchers. He emphasized that with this unit they will work more actively on the archives.evik said that they conducted the project in three stages and detailedAt stage one we try to understand which institutions do the job and how. Then Turkish experts come to the country where we will be conducting project and they determine the working areas and action plans by discussing the relevant persons. Next we detect the required equipment hardware and devices both for reading and inventory purposes. After that we take pictures to track the inventory. Above all we take measures to protect these archives and transfer them to next generations so we digitalize the images. I guess we have had over 150 thousand images so far. More than 30-40 thousand documents have been examined in North Macedonia.Krsteski the Director of North Macedonia State Archives said he had promised to open a unit for Ottoman Archives when he was assigned as the Director of the State Archives.