ONE of Kusadasi’s most striking attractions – the Oküz Mehmet Pasha Caravansaray in the heart of the city – is to be operated by Kusadasi Municipality. The council will take over the Caravansaray after outbidding other parties on the monthly rental of the attraction. Their bid of 77,000 a month was accepted. The tender for…
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Glenn Maffia writes about Didim’s Byzantine Chapel and Hellenistic foundations THIS site is located just behind the Medusa Butik Otel on the south east side of the Temple. Its discovery, in 2015, was the result of an inspired piece of archaeological detective work by the Director of Excavations of the German team. Threat to the…
Read MoreTHE total amount of water collected in major Turkish dams decreased by 30 percent in the first five months of 2017 compared to the same period of last year, raising the prospect of increased electricity prices in the future. The water collected in the first five months of the year amounted to roughly 27.5 billion…
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STUDENTS and teaches at Valliler Primary School put their best brush forward as part of a new generation paint up of the boundary walls. Teachers of the Technology and Visual Arts course, and their students, took on the mission. Rather than paint the wall in one uniform, boring wall, they decided to go for a…
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Turkish Airlines will offer flights to Phuket from July 17. Turkish Airlines executive in Thailand, Abdullah Ahmet Tugcu told journalists the first flight to Phuket from Istanbul will be on July 17. There will be four flights a week. In addition, Tugcu said that Turkish Airlines offered 14 flights a week to the capital of…
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DIDIM Help in Hands’ pledge to fund a campaign around road safety for children in the resort’s schools is beginning to come good. The idea for the Think First education project came about following discussions last year with the Didim Governor İskender Yönden, Didim’s Director of Education and the charity’s chairman Lynn Cole. Help-in-Hands’ members…
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CHILDREN were given a chance to dig into archaeology recently thanks to the Meandros Culture, Art and Tourism Association. They held a weekly session for children to find out more about history during the week of May 18-24. An “Archaeological Excavation Game” was prepared by Meandros Association in the garden of Miletus Museum as part…
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THOUSANDS of olive trees in Turkey are at risk of being cut down because of a draft law submitted to parliament on May 17. The Friends of Olives Association (Zeytindostu Derneği) has kicked off a campaign to save olive trees in Turkey. It aims to collect one million signatures and save our olive trees. Its…
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A DIDIM youngster, touched by last Monday’s terror attack, wore his Manchester United football kit to school last week as a show of pride for the city where he was born. Eight-year-old Loran Köseoğlu donned his favourite football side’s kit last Thursday as the UK came together to hold a minute’s silence for those left…
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A TOTAL of 11 Blue Flags has been awarded to the best beaches and one marina on the Didim coastline. However, Aydin Province, which includes Kusadasi and Didim, suffered a drop in the number of Blue Flags handed out annually – shrinking to 27 in 2017 from 31 in 2016. Blue Flags, a universally recognized…
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