Didim/Aydin

Less than 2,000 Brits in Aydin Province

31 January 2017

TURKEY’S population increased by more than 1 million people in 2016, reaching 79,814,871, the Turkish Statistics Institute announced on Jan. 31. According to 2016 results from the records of Address Based Population Registration System, males made up 50.2 percent of the total population and females made up 49.8 percent. The most populated province in the…

Extradition of British fugitive continues

15 November 2016

EXTRADITION of Didim-based British expat – David Spencer Hill – back to the UK is continuing, after Voices revealed he had been on the run for four years – and is yet to serve a six-year jail term. Hill (73) – who also went by the name of David Spence – was due to face…

New face of Altinkum unveiled

25 October 2016

EXCLUSIVE THIS is the first official view of a new look Altinkum beach front, Voices Newspaper can reveal. The new ‘glasshouse’ is a newly planned, private development that will incorporate land including well-known restaurants Sunshine, Vista, Dolunay and Big Ben’s. While the restaurants presently remain open for business, bulldozers are planned to move in before…

British fund to be asked to protect Aydin’s history

25 October 2016

AYDIN Province’s disappearing history could be given a shot in the arm from an unlikely source. The county’s Büyük Menderes Platform – an agency interested in preserving the province’s ruins is preparing to launch a project to raise public awareness to the fate of Aydin’s historical monuments. Under the project, the Platform seeks further protection…

UK artist’s exhibition in Didim

13 October 2016

THE works of a keen watercolour artist will be showcased in Didim from Saturday (October 15) at an Altinkum dental practice. Eighty-two-year-old artist John Burnell has been holidaying in the resort for nearly a decade where he and his wife, Gene, have a property. Twenty paintings of Mr Burnell’s have been donated to the Didim…

Roaring success for shelter’s special day

12 October 2016

Lynn Dulledge ON TUESDAY October 4, the volunteer friends group of the Didim Animal Shelter opened their doors to celebrate World Animal Day. We are excited to announce that our open afternoon was a roaring success. We were overwhelmed with the huge attendance and generous donations of dog food and money that now enables us…

Mystery case of charming British expat’s ‘detaining’

6 October 2016

VOICES EXCLUSIVE SHOCKED British expats in Didim are trying to understand how a ‘charming, cultured and considered pillar of the community” – 73-year-old David Spencer Hill – has been suddenly detained at Soke Prison. Mr Hill, 73, who is largely known as David Spence, has lived in Didim for more than five years and was…

Didim expat ‘among UK’s first 500 living organ donors’

28 September 2016

A YESILTEPE-based veteran soldier is one of the UK’s first 500 people to donate a kidney to a stranger as a living donor. NHS Blood and Transplant revealed today that 500 people in the UK have now donated a kidney to a stranger as a living donor in the 10 years since the law was changed…

Didim Chapel boosted by vestments donation

20 September 2016

THE Didim Chapel congregation was delighted this week with the donation of several vestments from designer and Christian artist Yvonne Bell. Yvonne pledged the vestments as a gift to the St Mary’s parish of Didim’s, and Reverend Maurice Ryan thanked her for them. A green set has an altar fall with an Orthodox icon of…

Brit family returns ‘home after 11-week hell’

6 September 2016

EXCLUSIVE A BRITISH mum-of-four who left Turkey over work permit issues has arrived back in the country she calls ‘home’. Jill Robinson, speaking exclusively to Voices, said she and her four children – Sami 11 years, Dylan 8 years, two-year-old Ella and 1-year-old Deniz, were delighted to have been allowed into the country to be…