Andy Probert: SO another year down, and another year sorting out the residence application here in Turkey. This time, I first had to apply online. After a few hairy moments on the website – https://e-ikamet.goc.gov.tr/ – I eventually got through to the end and arranged for my ‘interview application’ for Friday. What you need before you…
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AS Turkey’s rental law changes begin to bed in, Voices has some advice and tips from those at the sharp end of applying the law. The new laws compel home owners who rent their properties on a short-term basis (daily or weekly) to register them with the local authorities. In Didim, Voices understands Altinkum Premier…
Read MoreGlenn Maffia NO doubt this will long be remembered as ‘the season to forget’ for the traders of Didim, for it has been comprehensively woeful. Will more affluent times be awaiting us upon the next corner into the future? I am sure it shall, especially if this town begins to realize that there is an…
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Voices columnist Glenn Maffia IT HAS been so very obvious that the parking restrictions in and around Main Beach has been a triumphal success in reducing the number of vehicles congregating there. Once again it is a feather in the cap of Deniz Atabay’s Belediye.
Read MoreVoices Columnist Glenn Maffia HAVING an excellent background in tourism and having always proposed innovative ideas when he was President of TURSAB, Deniz Atabay is now acting upon those finely tuned instincts.
Read MoreThis is a piece that columnist Glenn Maffia first had printed on May 10, 2005, in the Didymian, the forerunner to the Voices Newspaper. GOOD to see the first waves of tourists arriving last week, and so refreshing to meet a number of Germans. If the town is to succeed in establishing itself as a…
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