TOURISTS may well find FREE sunbeds and umbrellas on Kusadasi’s beaches this summer following a decision over who should manage them. The management of the beaches has been transferred to Aydin Metropolitan after a three-year legal process. With Aydin becoming a metropolitan city, a discussion began between Kuşadası and Aydın Municipality regarding the operation of…
Read MoreGlenn Maffia: Though the God Apollo allegedly possessed many attributes, among them prophecy, he certainly had no supernatural control over that of climate. And so it came to pass that a number of people who were interested and enthusiastic about the talk And so it came to pass that a number of people who were…
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THE number of foreign tourists arriving to Didim and Kusadasi in 2016 increased – incredibly – by a modest 16 percent. The news was broken by Didim Governor Iskender Yönden on Friday at a tourism-related conference in Kusadasi While the number of foreign tourists to Turkey fell by 30 percent in 2016 to 25.3 million…
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AFTER last year’s pleasantly successful strolls around the Temple, and before the spring months fully burst upon us, Glenn Maffia wondered about the potential of delivering some informal background talks on the subject of the Temple of Apollo and its extended environment. Speaking to a friend who owns a particularly fine restaurant he indicated…
Read MoreSabah – TURKEY’S Labor and Social Security Ministry has published details regarding the “Turquoise Card,” a scheme that would allow foreigners the right to work and reside indefinitely in Turkey. The details, recently published in the Official Gazette, revealed that Turquoise card holders’ transactions regarding matters such as residence, travel, investment, commercial activity, inheritance, acquisition…
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DIDIMSPOR will enter into their final home game knowing that a win against Sarayköyspor will finally put to rest their relegation-threatened season. Didim has two games to play – including Sarayköyspor this Sunday (Mar 26) and away to Odemis Spor on April 2. Didim currently stands one place and seven points clear of Sarayköyspor, who have three games to…
Read MoreGift from the past Barry Nicholson: I couldn’t agree more with Glenn Maffia’s article ‘Reconstruct to Oblivion’ (Voices, Feb 22) and I agree there is an appalling mess of crumbling houses surrounding the Temple of Apollo. To think of the treasures that lie beneath the area is amazing and the German archaeologists, to my knowledge,…
Read More Al Jazeera: THE US is temporarily barring passengers on flights originating from Turkey and several Muslim-majority countries from carrying any electronic device larger than a cellphone starting on Tuesday, a Middle East-based carrier said. US officials were not authorised to disclose the details of the ban ahead of a public statement that was scheduled for 10:00…
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Glenn Maffia’s response to plans for a ‘Museum House’ near the Apollo Temple IT WAS while receiving a reply to a message I sent to a German archaeologist, prominent in the excavations around the Temple of Apollo for more than a decade, which clearly stated that, to the best of his knowledge, there has “never…
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DIDIM’S Glee Club is currently in rehearsals for the murder/mystery play “Sugar and Spice and all things not so Nice!” This comedy play is set in the late Victorian era where Devonport’s Sweet Manufacturing empire is expanding thanks to a secret recipe devised by the cook. During the course of the play the cook is…
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