WHILE many tourists continue to comment adversely on the centralised part of Altinkum, which has been fenced off for what seems decades, another well-known location point is beginning to gather dust. Didim’s Customs House was opened in a fanfare in 2006 and operated for five years with regular seasonal crossing between Didim and the Greek islands,…
Read MoreAn Airbus A300 will be sunk in the Aegean Sea off Kuşadası to serve as a reef and attract diving tourists in the resort town as part of a municipal project. The airplane, which was brought to the Güzelçamlı neighborhood of the town via five trucking rigs after being dismantled in Istanbul, will be sunk…
Read MoreTHE DIDIM Belediye helpdesk has received more than 4,000 visits and calls within its first six months. The helpdesk was set up in June 2015 to help foreign and Turkish citizens with council and other community-related issues, complaints and problems. The Didim Helpdesk and Call Centre, which is located to the left as you enter…
Read MoreNEW basketball, volleyball nets and badminton equipment for a Didim school have been bought through the actions of two local groups. The Didim Help in Hands’ Sports for Kids project which seeks to provide sports equipment for schools across the resort has been active in providing for the Gazi School, opposite the main PTT.…
Read MoreDIDIM’S worst kept secret – its new Ataturk statue – has been unveiled with a bit of pomp and ceremony. A new 5.5 metres high and 2.5m wide statue, (8m high including the pedestal) was installed on the junction opposite the former Law Courts and the turn for Yenihisar on Atturk Boulevard. Sculptor was Eray Okkan.…
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AN OFFICE that processes foreign residence permits has been officially opened in Didim this week. It is located in the governor’s building, on the second floor. You will see the sign for Göç Idaresi. Staff are English-speaking. The office will handle all residence permit applications EXCEPT the long-term one, which still has to be processed in…
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IN the end – or the beginning whichever you look at it – a new page was turned in the life of Didim Chapel on a sunny Sunday morning as Christians quietly ushered in a small piece of history for the local community. The renovated and rebuilt chapel, sitting in its own grounds, out of…
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A 300-YEAR-OLD chapel, located near Didim’s Temple of Apollo, will be finally and officially re-opened for Christian worship on Sunday October 25 at 11am. Dialogue and intense talks behind the scenes between the Christian community and the Didim Mayor’s office came to a head in the last few weeks. It has resulted in the chapel…
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Andy Probert’s third and final instalment on the appeal aid drop at Torbali The words were coming thick and fast, but solutions were light on the ground. Recriminations, mixed in with blunt language, conversations on the sidelines, solutions probed, solutions smashed. And a conversation behind our backs – simply because it physically was – that…
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Andy Probert ‘s second part of the Didim Syrian Box appeal’s visit on Friday to the camp at Torbali I’m not easily intimidated but I felt unease slip through the eyes and souls of some of our team in those early moments as they emerged from their vehicles and looked at the crowds – those milling…
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