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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Zeynep Ece Sarı, from Söke, is establishing her own success story having begun her textile journey as an apprentice at the age of 16, crowned it by participating in Miss Turkey by 19 and establishing her own brand at the age of 20. Now 21, Zeynep Ece is confidently advancing toward her dream of creating…
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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 seven days a week throughout the summer season. Owners Harun and Elif Olguner and their team organise all kinds of activities for visitors and residents,…
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Didim Batı Medical Center, which began operating in Didim in 2019, continues its journey in the fields of Emergency Services, Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Pediatrics, and Radiology, increasing its service variety and quality day by day. Our institution, which holds a health tourism authorization certificate, offers comprehensive services in Physical Therapy…
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The family of Didim swimmer Maya Gördüemel has been left fuming over a bureaucratic decision that denies her the chance to obtain a special sports school scholarship. Her mum, Sam, related how Maya had travelled with her coach to Antalya in August after being invited to effectively swim against the clock in her chosen disciplines…
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