THE 27-YEAR-OLD owner of an Internet shop has been severely wounded after he was shot twice in an apparent argument. Hasan Ünlü was shot to the body at 8.45pm last night (Tues Oct 6) after a car pulled up outside his shop in Kafadarlar Caddesi, Efeler Quarter, and a suspect opened fire with a gun. Earlier in…
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DIDIM Mayor Deniz Atabay has pledged council funding to buy 100 school uniforms for local ‘needy’ pupils. In his weekly press conference, he highlighted a number of issues: School uniforms The mayor said the Didim Municipality’s Cultural and Social Affairs Department had agreed to fund uniforms and shoes for 100 ‘neediest’ children. Names would be identified…
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A POLCE operation targeting drugs dealers in Didim has led to at least six suspects being arrested. Didim District police’s Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime teams carried out raids on two properties in the town. They recovered 74 grams of marijuana and a stash of ecstasy pills and bonzai. Eight people, including two women, were detained, but two…
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TWO suspects have been detained by Gendarme officers after an attempted break-in at a villa in Akbuk. The two men were caught in woods after fleeing on foot from the villa in the town over the weekend, allegedly leaving their vehicle behind. Locals raised the alarm when they heard the break-in at the villa nearby. The…
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DIDIM was second only to Kusadasi in the amount of houses sold throughout the Aydin province in the first six months of this year. In total, 13,772 residential units were sold in Aydin between January and the end of June. Kusadasi registered 3,943 houses sales, while Didim notched up 3,627 sales. The Didim estates agent’s…
Read More A LARGE–SCALE EU-linked project will be hosted in Didim this month. The festival, which will run to October 30, will draw in 33 European Voluntary Service representatives from 12 different countries, including Estonia, Moldova, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, Albania, Belarus, Georgia, Romania, Poland, Sweden and Turkey. The project, as part of the EU-backed Eurasmus initiative, expects…
Read More DOCUMENTS, potentially of a Lebanese refugee, have been handed into police after they were found by an Italian citizen. Anna Geroni handed in a wallet, a watch, money, credit cards and other personal documents she discovered while snorkelling off the coast of Mesut Tatil Sitesi, one of the islets dotted around the Didim coastline. Police…
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LESS than three months since the newly resurfaced Marina Road (Adnan Menderes Bulvari) was completed, a 250 metre stretch collapsed following an 11-hour rainfall on September 22. The affected part of the two-lane highway heads away from the bottom island close to Third Beach. The buckling of the road looks as if a major tremor…
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Julie Collings – Last Friday, at Caspers Bar, £305 on the day and £345 in total was raised by the local community who came together to support the MacMillan Cancer World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. Big thanks to Ozden Esgin and Kader, Casper Bar and staff for working extremely hard and Karen Dellar, Susan Maran and…
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DIDIM Tourism Association fears that local hotels will see a ten percent drop overall for the 102015 season. Association chairman Ercüment Alkaner said that all stakeholders in the tourism sector throughout Turkey had suffered this year due to the loss in confidence in the country, the elections and the ongoing security situation. Antalya has reported…
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