AKBUK is to get a new 112 Emergency Health Services Station, Community Health Center and a Family Health Physicians’ office. The Ministry of Health has given the green light for the new facilities, albeit dashing hopes of a fully functioning health centre as demanded by campaigners in the resort. Over the summer, a signature campaign was…
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DIDIM State Hospital is to get a new 75-bed capacity building, with operating theatres and an intensive care unit, it has been announced. The Ministry of Health has finally bowed to pressure from local and regional campaigners to build the new unit on 12,500 sqm of land opposite the existing health facility. Once opened, bed…
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VILLAGERS have responded negatively to plans to extend a quarrying of quartz and quartzite at a public meeting held on the northern coast of Lake Bafa, one of the most popular lakes in Turkey. Bafa Lake is one of the most famous attractions – alongside Didim’s Apollon Temple and Ephesus – where Didim-based tourists and…
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THERE certainly appears to be a perception among the indigenous population, probably founded upon empiricism, that the peoples from the British Isles and the Republic of Ireland utilize their vacation time merely to relax, unwind and then revert to impropriety with scant regard to others. Obviously, I can appreciate precisely where that sentiment emanates from,…
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DIDIM Mayor Deniz Atabay has publicly tied himself to a public pledge to have an open air concert area built in the resort He confirmed the concert arena would be built – with speculation centred on an area next to the Didim Fun Fair area and what used to be known as Kamaci Beach or…
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A MINIBUS carrying 14 Irish tourists overturned on its way to Izmir airport from Kusadasi, with five said to be injured. The accident occurred in Ahmetbeyli Yolu, in Yoncaköy Mevkii, in the Menderes area at about 9pm on Saturday night as the bus headed towards Adnan Menderes Airport, on the outskirts of Izmir. Five tourists were injured…
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POLICE have identified the burnt remains of a woman found on wasteland near Third Beach as a murder investigation intensified this week. The woman has been identified as Eylem Gülçin Kanık, aged 37. Her body was found by two people who stumbled on her burnt, naked remains on scrubland in and around Manastir, Camlik Mah, on…
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Advertorial: “No chips, no rice” was the exclamation when our meals arrived. This was said in a positive refrain as the stars of the show – a to-die-for steak, cooked to perfection, and lamb chops – arrived as we dined with friends for the first time at the Meyhane Istanbul. The main courses were served…
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THE burnt, naked body of a female has been found on scrubland in Didim, prompting a major police investigation. Two people stumbled on the body in Camlik Mahalessi and alerted police who descended on the scene. It has been reported that part of the woman’s torso was burnt. The body was transferred to Izmir’s Forensic Medicine…
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Kate Ashley-Norman TODAY (Tuesday October 10) is World Mental Health Day, with a particular theme of mental health in the workplace. Thanks to the likes of Princes William and Harry, and a myriad of other celebrities declaring mental health issues, this once hush hush topic has become openly discussed, debated and divulged in the public arena…
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