A MILAS real estate agent has claimed that he has detected the buried treasure from the fabled city of Troy – with reserve estimates totaling $500 billion Tuncer Rifat Barin says he has seen X-rays from digs in the area that seem to shed light on the 3,200 year mystery. However, archaeological experts have poured…
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HSBC has announced it is closing branches in Aydin and Nazilli, but remains committed to staying in Turkey. Local media reported that the affected branches will be close on the last day of trading as of Friday November 4, 2016. It appears that branches crucial to expats, such as Didim and Kusadasi, are not being affected…
Read More Turkey has done its best to avoid the refugee tragedy in the Aegean Sea by doing its part in the readmission agreement between the EU and Turkey, the Anadolu Agency reports. According to the EU-Turkey deal, Turkey is supposed to readmit all asylum seekers crossing into the Greek islands from the country. Turkey hosts nearly…
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THE number of British tourists heading through Bodrum Airport fell by a third compared to last year. Statistics for arrivals through the TAV-operated airport show that between January-September this year, 150,385 Brits flew in compared to 220,074 arrivals over the same period in 2015, a near 32 percent decline. The data revealed that overall the number…
Read More VICTORIA’S Secret model Tereza Maxova married her long-time partner, former CHP deputy chairman Onur Oymen’s son, Burak, at a lavish ceremony at the Canyon Ranch Wellness Resort at Kaplankaya, near Didim. The ceremony at the newly opened resort reportedly attracted ‘Victoria’s Secret’ model Karolina Kurkova and former globally renowned model Eva Herzigova. The henna event…
Read More A FREE ceramic-sculpture course is being organised by Didim Belediye. It begins this month, and those wishing to attend the course may apply through the Municipality’s Directorate of Culture. You’ll need two passport photographs and copy of your identity card or passport. Meanwhile, the Didim Chamber of Commerce and Community Education Center is continuing painting…
Read More Former cinema reopens as nursery The Ministry of Education has opened a new kindergarten – Smurfs – at the former cinema at the top of Ataturk Bulvari. The pre-school education unit will be run by retired national education inspectors and managers, as well as undergraduate teachers. Organisers say the education will be “visionary, innovative, intelligent and…
Read MoreGlenn Maffia NO doubt this will long be remembered as ‘the season to forget’ for the traders of Didim, for it has been comprehensively woeful. Will more affluent times be awaiting us upon the next corner into the future? I am sure it shall, especially if this town begins to realize that there is an…
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Read More AS part of its strategic plan, Atlasglobal Airlines will be transferring its flights from London Luton, where it has been operating since May 2014, to London Stansted Airport. Atlasglobal flights operate daily between London and Istanbul, taking off from Istanbul at 10.25, arriving in London at 12.30; taking off from London at 13.35 and arriving…
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