Local News

Street dog situation: getting worse?

Klaus Jurgens, Voices Columnist YEARS back the sight of any free roaming dog was cause for alarm as I had had our first daughter in tow – and unleashed big dog did not necessarily equal child-friendly dog.

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Mail problems plague PTT

TURKISH and foreign residents have voiced their anger yet again at the snail’s pace of the delivery of letters across Didim.

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VOICES Rescues V50 – The Aegean’s Biggest Northern Soul Event

THE BIGGEST live Northern Soul and Motown Dance Night this side of the Aegean has been rescued – thanks to Voices Newspaper. Voices has stepped in to guarantee the first ever Northern Soul event on Turkish soil in two years – the V50 – goes ahead at the fully air-conditioned Zaya Night Club at The…

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Brits hunt for missing £32,000

EXCLUSIVE A BRITISH couple are trying to find a former Didim complex manager who has gone missing with £32,000of their life-savings to be used for their ultimate wedding present. Keeron Jones, and his wife Helena Jarvis-Jones, from Neath, South Wales, entrusted the money with Mustafa Pekel in October 2012 to pay another British man for…

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Hospital charges warning

CONTRADICTORY messages were emerging from state hospitals this week about the charges for consultation and treatment being doubled. People without insurance and tourists presently pay 15.50TL, but there were rumblings from some expat quarters that this could be doubled to 30TL.

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Latest permit news emerges

THE latest news from the Residence Permit front is that some permits for Didim foreign residents should be trickling into the town soon. In an update from a Voice’s reader, who has SGK, rents and has had a police visit, they commented on the final stages of the application process.

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