Advertorial Family-run Go2altinkum has been offering speciality tours, airport transfers and supporting visitors to Altınkum for 18 years. Their office is located in the Third Beach area and is open 7 days a week throughout the summer season. Owners Harun and Elif Olguner and their team organise many activities for Altınkum visitors and residents, including…
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Laura Bower looks back on the first-ever edition of Voices It’s Saturday, 24 September 2005. Tony Blair is Prime Minister, Doctor Who is back on TV screens for the first time since 1989, Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles are newlyweds, and Roger Federer has just beaten Andre Agassi in the US Men’s Open. About 30,000…
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When Bev first flicked through a holiday brochure in 1994, she had no idea she was about to change her life forever. Didim looked appealing with sunshine, a pretty beach, and most importantly, the right price. That holiday introduced her not only to the town but also to her future husband, Metin, when Bev came…
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When Yolanda and her husband Nigel packed up their lives in Britain and moved to Akbük in 2005, they weren’t chasing a dream of business or adventure. They were chasing the sun. “We wanted to live in the sunshine,” Yolanda says simply. “A friend of mine at work in the UK was having an apartment…
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By Laura Bower If you’ve been monitoring the coastline around Didim, you might sometimes see a group of people clothed in matching t-shirts, baseball caps pulled low over their eyes, tooled up, piling out of a van like the Mission Impossible team, scouring the coast and filling up bags and bags of litter as they…
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When Mus first arrived in Didim in 2005, she had no idea that the small seaside town would become her long-term home nor that the jewellery shop she opened with her husband, Sinan, would still be thriving two decades later. “I always loved Türkiye,” she says, “and wanted to give it a go.” Born in…
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If a full Wembley Stadium was the population of Türkiye, Didim’s residents would be just 99 people in the stands. Yet Didim provides over half of Türkiye’s under-18 international acrobatic gymnastics champions. Is there something in the water at Altınkum Beach? Voices dropped in on a training session at Didim’s Youth and Sports Centre to…
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Voices spoke to Didim chemist Tolga Oktaygil about what happens behind the scenes at a pharmacy in Türkiye. Interview by Laura Bower I need medicine! What are the main differences between the UK and Türkiye when it comes to getting cured? The main difference is that you can’t buy any medicine, not even paracetamol, anywhere…
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A nurse with a passion for mountains has set her sights on the summit of Everest. Melek Aktaş, who lives in Bodrum and works at a private hospital, is captivated by her passion for summits. Having summited Ağrı three weeks ago, Aktaş has set her sights high. “Mountaineering is my passion, and summits have become…
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In a first for Kuşadası, the Rosemary Memorial House has deployed a humanoid robot to offer visitors a new high-tech experience of the environmental campaigner’s life. Opened in the name of Rosemary Baldwin, the British environmental volunteer who lived in Kuşadası for many years and who fought hard for the protection of nature, the Rosemary…
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