Didim-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…
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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…
Read More A RUSSIAN delegation led by Russian Deputy Culture Minister, Sergey Obryvalin, will visit Istanbul and Antalya on August 4-5. “The inter-agency Russian delegation will visit Istanbul and Antalya on August 4-5 on instructions from Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich to familiarize with the course of the implementation of recommendations to ensure safety of Russian…
Read More FOREIGN tourists to Didim’s resorts remain low in light of Turkey’s recent troubles, but the domestic sector continues strong. Officials have said tourism was disrupted in the Aegean region’s prominent tourism destinations, such as Didim and Kuşadası, due to the Gülenist Terror Organization’s (FETÖ) coup attempt for the first couple of days after but the…
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