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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DIDIMSPOR will be facing some of their biggest local rivals in a new league this coming season. The team has been drawn in League 10, and will be coming up against arch rivals Soke, Kusadasi, Mugla, as well as teams from Izmir, Aydin and Denizli. Here is the recently declared fixture (although this can be…
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Advertorial: Let’s Group, an established business in Didim, offers a tailor-made, hassle-free service to make your dream wedding a reality in Turkey. Why? Well it’s cost effective, stress free and we can offer the best locations and ideal weather. Our most recent wedding was on the Siesta Boat on September 7 of couple Andrea Brown…
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Andy Probert’s third and final instalment on the appeal aid drop at Torbali The words were coming thick and fast, but solutions were light on the ground. Recriminations, mixed in with blunt language, conversations on the sidelines, solutions probed, solutions smashed. And a conversation behind our backs – simply because it physically was – that…
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Andy Probert ‘s second part of the Didim Syrian Box appeal’s visit on Friday to the camp at Torbali I’m not easily intimidated but I felt unease slip through the eyes and souls of some of our team in those early moments as they emerged from their vehicles and looked at the crowds – those milling…
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Louise Kiliç Didim Syrian Box Appeal JUST 31 days ago, a few of us had a Facebook conversation about the Syrian refugee situation in Turkey and the increasing volume of vulnerable civilians arriving across the border daily. It was right around the time photos were emergıng: of fathers clinging to their children as safely arrived…
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