THREE businesses in Altinkum have been closed for three days for hassling tourists, while seven others were fined for playing excessively loud music, by the Didim Governor. Governor İskender Yönden said hassling – which has largely dropped out of sight for the last five years, but appears to be creeping back as the tourism season hits…
Read More ELTON John has announced he is to perform in concert at Antalya EXPO. The British singer will be performing on September 9, 2016, Sabah Newspaper and others have reported. The newspaper claims that the multi-millionaire singer penned a letter to the EXPO organisers stating his love for the country and not for the recent July…
Read MoreDidim-Farmakonisi refugees rescued A BOAT carrying 14 Syrian refugees, mostly women and children, which had set off from the Didim Coastline got into trouble heading towards the Greek island of Farmakonisi, forcing them to be rescued. Local media in Greece suggested the six-foot wooden boat had been stolen, but the passengers soon got into trouble…
Read More DIDIM Mayor Deniz Atabay has cast his sights on his next ‘demolition derby’ – the piers of Fezvi Paşa. At a press briefing, Mr Atabay said that notices will be issued this week to all owners of the ‘offending’ structures that have been off the coast for a number of years. He said all owners…
Read More A RELIGIOUS vocational high school is expected to be completed by April 2017, it has emerged. The 24-classroom high school and hostel construction project is costing about 7.7 million Turkish Lira to be built. The school for Islamic study is directly opposite the Royal Marina Complex, just up from the Meryemena Hotel, in Camlik Mah. Aydın Governor’s…
Read More Animal shelter equipped with operating table DONATIONS from kind-hearted animal lovers have helped to raise enough money to equip Didim Council’s animal shelter with a new operating table. Supporters and volunteers who helped on a daily basis at the shelter raised the funding within a number of months. Didim Municipality Animal Shelter chief Derya Güneş…
Read More DIDIM Council has agreed to name a local park after a young Didim student who was killed in a bombing last October. At the August meeting of the council last week, members agreed that a new park to run bordering streets 877-880, off Selanik Caddesi, Yeni Mahalle, will be named Elif Kanlıoğlu 10 October Peace…
Read More A BRITISH tourist who visited the same hotel more than 50 times in over 20 years has been immortalized with his own room door number. ‘Room 401 Charlie’ has been made specially following the death of Charles Courtney who holidayed at the Korumar De Luxe Hotel, in Kusadasi. Charles had holidayed an incredible 52 times…
Read More A YOUNG Kusadasi businessman has proposed to his girlfriend while on an underwater adventure through the sunken A300 Airbus jet off the Aegean coast. The plane was put to the bottom of the sea off Kuşadası back in June. Keen scuba diver Çağrı Göker decided to stage the underwater proposal to his girlfriend Hatice Erge…
Read More A DAD was left fighting for his life after a horror plunge from a hotel balcony – because he was scared of MOTHS. Kirk Shepherd, 34, plummeted 45ft from the third floor of Pine Bay Hotel, in Kusadasi,– after he got spooked when he was attacked by a swarm of the winged insects. Kirk, from…
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