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5th City and Environment Studies

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Arkın Palm Beach Hotel, Famagusta, Cyprus

The “5th City and Environment Studies” congress will be held with the collaboration of Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) Business and Economics Faculty, Business Department, Ankara University and, Ernst Reuter Housing - City Planning Application and Research Center. The meeting where mayors and local administration representatives of both Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) and overseas to be hosted, will commence with an opening ceremony on the 16th of April, 2018 at 09:30 in Arkın Palm Beach Hotel.

The congress will be organized with the contributions of the Development and Economic Collaboration Office operating under the Embassy of Republic of Turkey in Nicosia and Municipality of Famagusta. The agenda of the meeting is set to be the “Local Politics, Local Services in the Globalizing World” and it aims to shed light on the issues of city and environmental management.

Following the opening speech, Ankara University academic staff member and Congress Honorary President Prof. Dr. Ruşen Keleş will make a presentation followed by the music recital of EMU Education Faculty, Fine Arts Education Department students. During the first session of the congress moderated by Ankara University academic staff member Prof. Dr. Cevat Geray, Ankara University academic staff member and Congress President Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Mengi and EMU Business and Economics Faculty vice Dean Assoc. Prof. Dr. Deniz İşçioğlu will make the presentation entitled “Provisions of Autonomy in TRNC and European Local Administrations”, the congress will continue with the following presentations; “Urbanity Awareness and Local Administrations” by Girne American University academic staff member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nazım Beratlı , “Globalization, Local Administrations and Citizen Rights” by Prof. Dr. Kıvılcım Akkoyunlu Ertan from the Turkey and Middle East Public Administration Institute and lastly, “Globalization and Future of the Local Administrations” by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Birol Ertan.

The congress will continue with the sessions to be organized on the 17th of April, 2018.