Audit finds Istanbul municipality paid more than triple market price for desserts

Türkiye's Court of Accounts (Sayıştay) found Istanbul's metropolitan municipality paid as much as 1,200 lira per kilo for baklava under a negotiated contract, against 370 lira charged in other periods of the same deal, and more than tripled the market rate for tel kadayıf. Auditors said the municipality never used earlier contract prices to estimate costs and hired a contractor with no production facility of its own.

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