Union of Turkish World Municipalities (TDBB) March Executive Board Meeting was held on Thursday, March 25, 2021 by Video Conference Method.
The meeting, under the chairmanship of President of TDBB and also Mayor of Konya Metropolitan Municipality Uğur İbrahim Altay, was attended by TDBB Secretary General Fahri Solak, Executive Board members who are Mayor of Zeytinburnu Ömer Arısoy, Mayor of Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality Yücel Yılmaz, Mayor of Bağcılar Lokman Çağırıcı, Mayor of Şahinbey Mehmet Tahmazoğlu and Mayor of Başiskele Yasin Özlü.
The meeting continued with the briefing of TDBB Secretary General Fahri Solak on the ongoing activities since the last Executive Board Meeting on 17 February 2021 and the discussion of the meeting’s agenda.
Within this framework, it was decided to organize joint programs in the framework of activity areas cooperatively by Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Manas University and TDBB, to carry out Fuel Aid Project to Palestine Beyt Hanoun Municipality in cooperation with TDBB and Sister City Selçuklu (Konya) Municipality, to organize an international Symposium with the theme “Development of Local Governments in Turkic Republics in the 30th Anniversary of Their Independence” in the Fall of 2021, to support Donji Vakuf Municipality for “511th Ajvatovica Festival” that will take place between 18 and 30 June 2021, to participate in “10th International Eurasia World Heritage Cities Conference” on behalf of TDBB, organized by Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) Eurasia Secretariat online on April 02, 2021, to organize experience sharing conference on “Role of Municipalities in Pandemic Process” for Mongolia Member Municipalities, to organize promotional programs in Sarajevo and Istanbul for the books “Turkey’s Soft Power and Public Diplomacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sanjak Region” and “Tombstones in Bosnia and Herzegovina” published as TDBB Publications, to support the establishment of Konya-based “Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) – Middle East and West Asia Secretariat” and to submit the membership application made by Çeltik (Konya) Municipality to our Union to the Administrative Board with a favorable opinion.