British bus driver Garry Warren is set to run the Istanbul Marathon next weekend to help raise funds for Didim’s Help-in-Hands charitable group. Garry, who with his wife Rosemary and two daughters have been holidaying in Didim for years, will be taking on his fifth marathon when he tackles the only intercontinental marathon in the…
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Söke reaches 7 million kilograms in cotton purchases Söke Tariş Cotton and Oil Seeds Agricultural Sales Cooperative President İsmail Özer announced that the cooperative has purchased 7 million kilograms of cotton so far. President Özer stated that they started cotton purchases with a yield price of 56 TL and that their pricing policies are constantly…
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Didim Belediye has confirmed that the name of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, who was killed by an Israeli sniper, will be kept alive in the town where she is buried. Ayşenur was murdered in the West Bank on September 6 when she went to support the Palestinian people. Didim Municipality took a meaningful step in the…
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A petition campaign appealing to keep the Didim Migration Office (GOC) open saw a delegation of foreign nationals meet the Didim Governor District Governor Can Kazım Kuruca to express their concerns. Last week, Voices revealed that the Didim GOC office would no longer be accepting residency permit applications amid major interim changes. It will close…
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Anticipated regulations regarding title deed transactions and inheritance sharing have come into force with the aim to make transactions more flexible. An important change in the inheritance law will aim to prevent family disputes and provide more flexibility to heirs. Equal shares abolished While it was previously mandatory to share the inheritance equally with family,…
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Didim Municipality took action for the superstructure of the 75th Year Industrial Site, the largest industrial site in the district. Road construction work has begun in the industrial site by the Technical Works Directorate teams. Following Didim Mayor Hatice Gençay’s visit to the 75th Year Industrial Site in recent months, the municipality has taken the…
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Plogging in Didim members are back in action after a well-earned summer break. Member Geoffrey Beedell said this week’s plog was at Sarıkum Plajı. The plog was attended by 16 people. It was a cool start but by the end most of us were gently perspiring! The beach was surprisingly clean but on the headland…
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Didim-based Ukrainian Sofia Bychyk came away as a champion at the 15th World Karate Championships in Sheffield, England. She came first in the 14-15 years old age category of the Shobu Ippon discipline at the KTC event held on September 5-8. Sofia, who studies at Didim American College, also took third in the 14-15 yrs…
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A significant piece of land at Mavişehir, near Didim, has been allocated for hotel construction by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The Ministry revealed this week it had released two plots of coastal land for two 1,000-bed 5-star hotels. The land is locally referred to as “Sedef Bay, Sarıkum Beach and Kulakçı Bay” in the…
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As Aydin prepares for the annual olive oil harvest, authorities have thwarted a major fraud said to be worth 1 million Turkish Lira. Food fraudsters caught In an operation by gendarmerie teams in Efeler district of Aydın, 88 boxes of fake olive oil with a market value of 1 million liras were seized. A tax fine of…
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