TDBB 2024 July Administrative Board Meeting was Held in Istanbul

Union of Turkish World Municipalities (TDBB) July Administrative Board Meeting was held on 25 July 2024 at the Union headquarters in Istanbul, with the participation of local administrators from 6 different countries (Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, TRNC, Lebanon, Moldova Gagauz Autonomous Region and Turkey). The meeting, chaired by President of TDBB and Mayor of Konya Metropolitan Municipality Uğur İbrahim Altay, was attended by TDBB Secretary General Fahri Solak, TDBB Administrative Board members, President of Union of Azerbaijan City Municipalities Temraz Tağıyev, Mayor of Bosnia and Herzegovina Novi Grad Semir Efendiç, President of Union of Cyprus Turkish Municipalities (KTBB) Mahmut Özçınar, President of Union of Lebanon Dannieh Municipalities Mohammed Sadieh, President of Moldova Gagauz Autonomous Region Evghenia Gutul, Mayor of Başiskele (Kocaeli) Mehmet Yasin Özlü, Mayor of Karatay (Konya) Hasan Kılca, Mayor of Pendik Ahmet Cin, Mayor of Selçuklu (Konya) Ahmet Pekyatırmacı, Mayor of Şahinbey (Gaziantep) Mehmet Tahmazoğlu, Mayor of Tavşanlı (Kütahya) Ali Kemal Derin, Mayor of Ümraniye (Istanbul) İsmet Yıldırım and Mayor of Zeytinburnu Ömer Arısoy. The meeting continued with TDBB Secretary General Fahri Solak’s providing information about the projects carried out since the Administrative Board meeting on 25 April 2024, and discussing the agenda items. Within this framework, it was decided to carry out a process to sign a cooperation protocol between the Union of Turkish Cypriot Municipalities and the Union of Azerbaijani City Municipalities, to carry out a process to sign a cooperation protocol between Union of Lebanon Dannieh Municipalities and Union of Turkish Cypriot Municipalities, to carry out “2024-2025 Academic Year Stationery Aid Project” for students in need in Zeytinburnu district in cooperation with TDBB and Zeytinburnu Municipality, to organize an experience sharing program for local administrators of Uzbekistan in 2024 in cooperation with TDBB, Uzbekistan Mahallabay Agency and member municipalities, to organize an expert training program for educators coming to Turkey from Kyrgyzstan within the scope of the “Kindergarten Development Project” in cooperation with TDBB and member municipalities in 2024, to give support from TDBB to “Anatolian School Literature and Culture Camp” event to be held in Kocaeli on 19-23 August 2024, to carry out a process for the participation of young people from Turkey in the "YazFest" event to be held in Azerbaijan on 12-16 August 2024, in cooperation with TDBB, Azerbaijan Youth Foundation and member municipalities, to give support by TDBB to the “16th East Turkestan Solidarity Meeting” event to be held in Istanbul on 04-07 October 2024 by the East Turkestan Education and Solidarity Association, to give support from TDBB to the “9th Turkish World Documentary Film Festival and Competition” to be organized by the Turkish World Journalists Federation on 09-12 October 2024, to give support from TDBB to the “12th International Altai Societies Symposium” to be held in Taiwan on 25-27 September 2024, to participate in “Zivinice Open 2024” program to be held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 02-06 August 2024, on behalf of TDBB, to give support from TDBB to “3rd International Güzelyurt Art Meeting” event to be held in TRNC by Güzelyurt (TRNC) Municipality on 21-28 July 2024, to provide participant support from member countries in cooperation with TDBB for the event to be held in the following years, to carry out the process on developing sister city relations with Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) Municipality, as conveyed by Sultanbeyli (Istanbul) Municipality, to participate in “235th Anniversary of the Foundation of the City of Comrat” to be held in Comrat (Moldova-Gagauzia) on August 17, 2024, on behalf of TDBB, to organize an experience sharing program for local administrators of the Gagauz region in cooperation with TDBB, the Presidency of the Gagauz Autonomous Region and member municipalities, to conduct a process to strengthen the relations of the municipalities in the TRNC with their sister cities in Turkey, to conduct a process to establish sister city relations between Turkish and Uzbekistan municipalities that are members of TDBB, to update the amount of support given to master's and doctoral students registered in master's or doctoral programs at universities in Turkey, who are in their thesis phase conducting a thesis study on "Local Governments and Urban Studies in Turkish Republics and Related Communities", and also to accept the membership applications of the Municipalities of Sürmene (Trabzon), Demirci (Manisa), Buhara (Uzbekistan), Fergana (Uzbekistan), Şahrisabz (Uzbekistan), Nukus (Uzbekistan), Yangi Namangan (Uzbekistan) to TDBB.