Didim News in Brief

Electric bike in new law poser?

A REPORT in the Milliyet Newspaper suggests that electric bikes will be coming under a new law governing them.

The newspaper said that electric bikes over 0.25kw and of speeds of up to 25 km need to be registered with the police.

It added that owners will need a bike licence (cat A1), insurance and need to wear a helmet.

Fines of 600TL for no license and 66TL for no helmet can be imposed by the traffic police.

Bulgarian tourist dies

A BULGARIAN tourist has died while apparently scuba diving alone off the shores of Didim.

Local media named the tourist as Rosen Nikolov Dimitrov (47) who got into difficulties while swimming close to the Denizli Öğretmenler Sitesi on Sunday.

It was reported he was scuba diving alone when he got into difficulty. Emergency services attended the scene and he was rushed to Didim State Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

He is believed to have died of a heart attack, but an autopsy was due to be carried out at Izmir’s Forensic Medicine Institute to establish cause of death.

Clean up on the coastline

STUDENTS and hotel staff cleaned Yesilkent beach as part of a joint initiative to promote a clean environment.

The Didim Clean Environment campaign was initiated by the Ministry of Environment to improve environmental awareness in the community. It was implemented across Turkey between May 1-7.

Students from Didim Zeynep -Mehmet Donmez Vocational and Technical High School, and staff from the Venosa Hotel, took to cleaning up the local coastline, with support from Didim council officers and the mayor Deniz Atabay.

Several bags of rubbish were collected from off the beach as a result of the morning’s promotional campaign.

A council spokesman said: “The aim of the campaign across Turkey is to promote environmental awareness. Education is key as we constantly find our beaches with waste, including plastics glass. This pollution is not just on the sands but in the seas as well.”

Nine injured in stadium collapse

A STAND of Didim spectators in Aydın collapsed during a college football match on May 5, leaving nine students injured.

The sheet metal stand was unable to sustain the weight of around 300 spectators watching a college tournament match.

The match was between the Didim Vocational School and the Atça Vocational School of the local Adnan Menderes University, which was taking place on a pitch next to the Adnan Menderes Stadium. 

After the stand collapsed in the 65th minute of the match, the student spectators fell down from a height of about two meters.

Eight students were slightly injured and one was in a more critical condition, after he was trapped under the collapsed stand and other students fell unto him.

Doctors do not consider his condition to be life-threatening.

The other injured students were all immediately taken to nearby hospitals after the incident.