EXCLUSIVE A PRIMARY care worker has revealed for the first time to Voices why she was motivated to help the Didim Syrian Box Appeal and raise over £2,000 in six days – the death of her cousin in the Tunisian beach shootings eight weeks ago. Tanya Strange, who lives near Caerphilly in Gwent, South Wales,…
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One dead in smash One teenager died and another two were injured when their car was in a head-on collision with a passenger bus on the Didim-Akbuk road at Fevzipaşa Crossroads at 1.30am last Sunday. The car contained students all aged 18 and from Akbuk. One passenger died, the driver was seriously injured while the…
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THE TEAM at Akbuk Solutions has moved offices down near the beach – and have opened Turuncu Cafe and Bar as well at the same location. The official opening of the bar and office was on Wednesday September 2 and an estimated 300 people turned out for the maintenance company’s special event. The Turuncu Cafe…
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FREE Turkish lessons for foreigners are being put on in Didim. The lessons will be at Halk Eğitimi Merkezi, a government education centre on a road down the side of HSBC Bank on the corner and next to Kültür Tea Gardens. They are planned to begin at the end of Sept 2015. Level 1 is…
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A SHARP-EYED Voices reader has asked why taxi rates are quoted differently from the international and domestic terminals At Bodrum Airport. The reader drew Voices attention to the anomaly while picking up friends at the airport. He queried why rates on the international side are quoted in USD, GBP and Euro, but only in Turkish…
Read More Fevzi Paşa residents raise local issues RESIDENTS living in and around Fevzi Paşa – the seaside village that sites between Didim and Akbuk – have kicked up over a number of issues threatening their idyll. Locals on the Akkent, Altın, Çağın and Denizlikent sites staged a brief demonstration on the main feeder road running along…
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EXCLUSIVE: MONARCH Airlines has ditched all flights to Bodrum for 2016 – leaving thousands of UK tourists and second-home owners scrambling for alternatives next season, Voices has discovered. Bodrum Airport has been the main holiday airport for low-cost flight passengers accessing the bright lights of Bodrum, its peninsula and those travelling to Akbuk and Didim…
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THOUSANDS of Turkish Lira has been raised by a double-header hosted by Help-in-Hands, the local charitable group. More than 5,000TL was raised at the Didim Help-in-Hands big Summer Bash on Thursday August 27 at Meandros Village Restaurant, on Adnan Menderes Bulvari, with 181 people in attendance. The night included good food, live music, raffle prizes…
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RESIDENTS have launched petitions to get Aydin Council to install speed ramps around the Third Beach neighbourhood after a two-car smash. The accident, occurred at a crossroads on Karadeniz Cadessi, at the back of Sunset Aparthotel, owned by Didim Mayor Deniz Atabay, last Friday. At about 3pm, a grey travelling along Karadeniz Cad smacked into…
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VOICES columnist Amy Idem, originally from Lancashire, lives with her husband and three children, in Idil, in Turkey’s southeastern province of Şırnak. She writes about her cultural and life experiences here, and on her blog:https://memyselfandidil.wordpress.com/ My Little Idil I’VE never been a brilliant sleeper, it takes me a long time to drift off, usually with…
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