The Trabzon Metropolitan Municipality and the Eastern Black Sea Regional Development Administration manage Turkey's primary Black Sea port city, coordinate hazelnut and tea agricultural logistics for a hinterland producing 25% of the world's hazelnut supply, preserve Byzantine-era monuments including the 13th-century Hagia Sophia of Trabzon and the cliff face Sumela Monastery, and manage steep coastal terrain infrastructure between the Pontic Mountains and the Black Sea shore.
The record Trabzon keeps on the Board of Mayors is still unwritten. Take office and write its opening chapter.
Landmark: Sumela Monastery & Hagia Sophia of Trabzon.
The Eastern Black Sea Regional Development Administration manages hazelnut export logistics for Trabzon's hinterland — the Pontic Mountain terraces produce approximately 25% of the world's entire hazelnut supply, harvested from steep hillside orchards — requiring the municipality to coordinate seasonal harvest transport networks, cold storage warehousing, and export container logistics through Trabzon Port for a commodity that feeds the global confectionery industry including major chocolate manufacturers worldwide.
Trabzon Municipality manages conservation of the Sumela Monastery — a Greek Orthodox monastery built into the sheer face of a 300-metre cliff in the Pontic Mountains, 50 km from the city — requiring specialist rope access conservation engineers, cliff face rock stabilisation netting, and a ticketed visitor management system for a site accessible only via steep forest trails, where 14th-century Byzantine frescoes in the rock carved church require continuous humidity monitoring and fungal treatment programmes.
How a term works
Take office and each day brings a live situation from the city's services: a decision to make and a result that is measured. A term is judged on approval, infrastructure, environment and innovation, within the city's budget, and every term adds to the record Trabzon keeps on the Board of Mayors. Mayors message and confer with one another, form councils, trade with neighbouring cities and send aid where it is needed. Cities rise together.