Didim Mayor CHP’s Deniz Atabay is recovering in hospital after he was viciously beaten in a baseball bat attack at a prime restaurant at Didim Marina last night (Monday). The attack occurred as Mr Atabay and his personal lawyer Nizamettin Bulut were meeting for dinner at Key-f Restaurant & Cafe in D-Marin Didim Marina, Four…
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A tender has been won by a local company for a plot of land which sits on a prime site opposite Altinkum Beach. The area, known as the Vakiflar land and features a few abandoned buildings, stands just off Yali Caddesi and opposite Didim Shopping Centre, just a stone’s throw from the beach. It has…
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Former journalist George Dearsley has released an action-packed biography – 12 Camels for Your Wife – about his and his late wife’s undying 49-year complex love affair with the adopted homeland, Turkey. Full of anecdotes and quirky stories, his book is as much a dedication to his wife, Carolyn, who sadly died aged 58 from…
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THE team at Didim’s Sevil Smile Studio has helped to raise enough funds to provide 279 bicycles for youngsters in eastern Turkey. The dental studio, owned and operated by Sevil Pekmezci, decided to organize fundraising, in collaborations with local volunteers. “These are unprecedented times, and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we had restricted travel to…
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News of the proposed theatre upon the beach near the Luna Park brought a wry smile to my lips for two notable reasons, writes Voices columnist Glenn Maffia. Architectural terminology Firstly, the insistence on continuing to call this structure an amphitheatre shows a complete lack of knowledge of architecture. One would have thought that someone…
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IMAGES of a proposed amphitheatre with a capacity for 4,000 people have been unveiled, with it set to have stunning Aegean Sea views from Camlik’s Second Bay. Located next to the Didim Luna Park, and close to the Didim Beach Hotel, the amphitheatre is one of the pledges Didim Mayor Deniz Atabay had made…
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Having so much time on my hands within this imposed UK lockdown has afforded me to surf around and research avenues that I’d normally pass over writes Glenn Maffia. An interesting one is the German Archaeological Institute’s agenda and timetable of activities across the globe. Naturally I looked for any proposed new work concerning the…
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Report by Karen Clough Despite the freezing conditions, there was an excellent turn out of 20 members from the Didim Plogging Group on Thursday. Several new members attended the clean-up of Manastir Beach, during which the group collected more than 20 full bags of rubbish – and the odd tyre. A special welcome to all…
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It was saddening to read that the building which houses the small finds from the entire archaeological site had partially collapsed after being weakened by recent torrential rainfall, though such news was not surprising, writes Glenn Maffia. It was during the summer of 2012 when I was conversing with the archaeologists, once more, when I…
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Seemingly marooned indefinitely within the sleeping lockdown city which these days is London, I have managed to continue to keep in touch with events going on and around the Temple of Apollo thanks to Voices and my friends within Didim, writes Glenn Maffia. Therefore, I shall recount some of the issues which have revealed themselves…
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