TOURISTS and expats will be spoilt for choice this weekend (May 6-7) with two Aegean festivals being held. Food Festival; Selçuk Selçuk, the town nearest Ephesus, will be hosting a new and different festival. Called the “Kantaron Festival”, it seeks to celebrate the natural flavours of the Aegean region. The festival will promote Selçuk’s natural…
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ONE of the most wide-ranging reports into the state of Didim’s tourism sector has been revealed. The Tourism Assessment Analysis for Didim was prepared by Didim Tourism and Hotel Management Vocational High School. The analysis was unveiled recently at a symposium at the Tourism Hotel Management Vocational High School. Instructor Dr Rabia Aydin’s report looked…
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AKBUK is to be among the first venues outside Istanbul to launch Tag Rugby thanks to the efforts of two West Yorkshire men. Malcolm Kielty (67) and friend Kevin Barker (also 67), both from Halifax, aim to start weekly Tag Rugby sessions in Akbuk as a combined fun, family and health project. They will launch…
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VOICES Newspaper is again launching its summer long campaign to highlight rip-off websites that charge vast amounts for an E-Visa to Turkey. Some of the scammers that we first highlighted four years ago have closed down or been closed down, but in their wake, new Evisa sites are popping up – even looking like the…
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A PARK in Didim has been named after a young Didim man who died in a submarine accident in 1963. The opening of the park was named after Sehitur Mustafa Ozsoy, who was martyred as the result of the collision of the submarine with a Swedish cargo ship named Naboland and who was the first…
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Glenn Maffia (with valuable research by Jay Jean Jackson) CLIMBING the stairs to the vastly impressive front façade of the Temple will bring one into the Pronaos, an area allowing the petitioners to await the answers to their questions received by the god of prophecy. It was here the priests of Apollo’s shrine pulled back…
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AIRLINES have asked for a change in the law to make drinking duty-free booze on planes a criminal offence. Airlines UK, which represents several major airlines including British Airways, easyJet and Virgin, said the move would reduce the number of air rage incidents. According to Sky News, Airlines UK chief executive Tim Alderslade said airlines…
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THE worried family of a UK man missing in Turkey say they have received a demand for hundreds of pounds in return for information about his whereabouts. Gary Burns, 39, who has lived in the country for eight years, was last seen in August in the resort of Icmeler and relatives are becoming increasingly concerned for him.…
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NEW laws coming into force for those renting their homes on a daily or weekly basis are continuing to cause confusion, consternation and frustration. The laws basically compel home owners who rent their places out on a short-term basis (daily or weekly) to register their properties with the local authorities or face the risk of…
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FOREIGN tourists and local mingled during a mini-festival to mark Tourism Week this week. Among the crowds were mum and daughter Marion Ford and Zoe Clark, along with Zoe’s friend Emma Louise Fenton. They were impressed by the local crafts and hobbies of Didim women and, overall, had enjoyed their one-week stay in the resort.…
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