THE lack of a sewerage connection in Çobankuyu Caddesi in Didim and the disruption of the roads have caused a major stir among residents of the neighborhood. The residents claimed the health of the people was put at risk due to the bad smells because they could not obtain the services of the municipality. Citizens…
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THE annexe of one of Didim’s oldest schools – the Cumhuriyet Primary School – is being officially demolished after standing empty for two years. The school served the Hisar Mahallesi area for 87 years. The roof of the prefabricated building located in the garden of the historical school has been taken off and the annexe…
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DIDIM Mayor Deniz Atabay has called for an improved and bigger hospital to serve the town at a meeting of health officials. Mr Atabay explained the inadequacies of the Didim State Hospital to the Aydın Province Coordination Board’s Third Term Meeting. Aydin Provincial Health Director Mustafa Serkan Senel said the Ministry of Health was apparently…
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TWO members of Didim’s disabled community were overjoyed recently to receive high-tech wheelchairs from the town’s Help in Hands group. With the support of the Association of Didim and Regional Disabled People, the group handed over the wheelchairs to physically disabled Halil İbrahim Nadas (48) and Ibrahim Budak (25), who was disabilities due to a…
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Glenn Maffia continues his roam around the Apollo Temple environs. IT IS immensely gratifying to welcome back the archaeologists from the Martin Luther University of Halle under the direction of Prof. Helga Bumke. We certainly missed them last year and hopefully they can make up for that lamentable lost time by succeeding to astonish us…
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WHILE Turkey’s cruise passenger traffic stood at 118,087 people in the first half of the year, these passenger ships mostly visited Kuşadası. According to data compiled from the General Directorate of Maritime Commerce, a total of 131 cruise ships docked at 15 ports in Turkey during the January-to-June period this year. The number of passengers…
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A BAPTISM ceremony has taken place at the Didim chapel for the first time after 150 years. The son of Assyrian businessman Enlil Simon Afram was baptized at the chapel, located close to Apollo Temple.in Aydın’s Didim district. The Metropolitan Bishop of Mardin and Diyarbakır Saliba Özmen performed the baptism. He noted that he led the…
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THE number of tourists coming to Antalya exceeded 5 million as of July 28 this year amid fresh data suggesting Turkey’s tourism industry is slowly coming out of the doldrums. The Governor of Antalya Münir Karaloğlu said that the year-end target is 10 million tourists. The number of tourists coming to Antalya from Jan. 1 to…
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IZABELA Miszczak, the owner of the history website Turkish Archaeological News (TAN), paid a visit to Didim on Wednesday and Thursday in the company of her family to re-visit the Temple of Apollo. They were hosted by ‘Voices’ columnist Glenn Maffia on a tour of the temple and the archaeological sites which surround this elegant…
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HOUSE sales in Turkey saw a decline in June, although sales to foreigners soared by nearly 25 percent, official data showed on July 24. According to data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK), some 97,579 units of properties were sold in June across the country with an 8.1 percent of year-on-year decline. A total of…
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