GAZIANTEP — With Turkish and EU flags everywhere and a band playing, Gaziantep Mayor Fatma Sahin, flanked by EU and UN representatives, cut the ribbon of an EU-funded waste management facility earlier this week, providing a rosy picture of cooperation amid tense EU-Turkey ties.
The $10 million Mechanical Biological Treatment and Biogas Facility, one of the largest of its kind in Europe, aims to help the municipality cope with waste, after the city’s population swelled with half a million Syrians — the second-largest Syrian community in Turkey after Istanbul.
