Executive Board Meeting of the Union of Turkish World Municipalities (TDBB) was held at the headquarters of the Union in Istanbul on Wednesday, August 15, 2018.

TDBB President and the Mayor of Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality İbrahim Karaosmanoğlu, TDBB Secretary-General Fahri Solak, TDBB Executive Board Members, Mayor of Bağcılar Lokman Çağırıcı, Mayor of Beykoz Yücel Çelikbilek Mayor of Keçiören Mustafa Ak and Mayor of Zeytinburnu Murat Aydin joined the meeting.

After Secretary-General of the TDBB Fahri Solak gave information about the conducted activities and the agenda since the last meeting of the Executive Board on July 18, 2018, the meeting continued with the discussion of the issues from the agenda.

In this context, it was decided to purchase a garbage truck that was requested by the Municipality of Skrapar (Albania) in cooperation of our Union with its members and the sister cities of the Municipality of Skrapar, to participate by representing our Union at the “3rd World Nomad Games” that will be held between 2 and 8 September in Kyrgyzstan, to organize expert training program in 2018 for the staff from the Metropolitan Municipality of Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), to conduct in cooperation with Zeytinburnu “2018 Year Stationery Help” for the students from Zeytinburnu who are in need, to implement in cooperation with Zeytinburnu Municipality “Smart Bike Rental Project” in the Ohrid Municipality, to finance the accommodation expenses in Istanbul of the member of the Union Doboj-Istok Municipality (Bosnia and Herzegovina) during their visit to Turkey, to give participation support to ”ATRAX 2019 that will be held in Istanbul on 14-16 February 2019 and to inform Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality about “Mongol Naadam: Sport and Culture Center Project” that was planned to be organized by the Ulaanbator Municipality.