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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A couple looking to holiday in Turkey have been ripped off for £130 on a ripoff evisa website. The couple told Voices that they had unknowingly booked through thewww.evisaworld.com website. Instead of being charged £13 per person, they were hammered for £65 each. They’re now making attempts to get their money back through their bank after…
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A SPINE road running to the front door of The Garden Of Sun and past Sky Bar has been closed off for a major refurb. Locally known by residents in Third Beach as pothole alley – particularly the holes in the road outside the Peyda Apart, the road is now undergoing resurfacing with block paving.…
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IF you were sweet-toothed last Saturday and at the Zebra Café, then you would have been in seventh heaven. I was lucky to be one of three judges for the Great Didim Bake Off in aid of raising funds for the Every Need Didim group which goes towards supporting school children and their school locally.…
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Two suspects detained for offences TWO men have been detained in Didim as part of an inquiry into ‘intentional homicide crimes’. The two, aged 39 and 36, were detained at an address in the resort in relation to a police investigation into a major incident between neighbouring families in Gaziantep in July. The incident led to…
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Advertorial LAUNCHED in July 2013 with coverage across Turkey, YellAli’s initial focus has been on Istanbul and the southern Aegean cities. Over the coming months YellAli will be extending its reach to Izmir and Aydin working alongside Voices. Most of you will already know of and have heard of YellAli.com but do you really know…
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A TOTAL of 29 parties will be fighting out the November 1 general election, the Supreme Election Board (YSK) Official Gazette declared. The parties are: 1 Justice and Development Party 2- Anatolia Party 3- Independent Turkey Party 4 Great Union Party 5- Republican People’s Party 6- Democratic Party 7. Democratic Progress Party 8. Democratic Left…
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