Local News

Two detained over villa break-in

TWO suspects have been detained by Gendarme officers after an attempted break-in at a villa in Akbuk. The two men were caught in woods after fleeing on foot from the villa in the town over the weekend, allegedly leaving  their vehicle behind. Locals raised the alarm when they heard the break-in at the villa nearby. The…

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Turks stoke Didim house sales

DIDIM was second only to Kusadasi in the amount of houses sold throughout the Aydin province in the first six months of this year. In total, 13,772 residential units were sold in Aydin between January and the end of June. Kusadasi registered 3,943 houses sales, while Didim notched up 3,627 sales. The Didim estates agent’s…

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Festival for the disabled launches

A LARGE–SCALE EU-linked project will be hosted in Didim this month. The festival, which will run to October 30, will draw in 33 European Voluntary Service representatives from 12 different countries, including Estonia, Moldova, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, Albania, Belarus, Georgia, Romania, Poland, Sweden and Turkey. The project, as part of the EU-backed Eurasmus initiative, expects…

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Citizen hands in beach find

DOCUMENTS, potentially of a Lebanese refugee, have been handed into police after they were found  by an Italian citizen. Anna Geroni handed in a wallet, a watch, money, credit cards and other personal documents she discovered while snorkelling off the coast of Mesut Tatil Sitesi, one of the islets dotted around the Didim coastline. Police…

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Scandal as spine road collapses

LESS than three months since the newly resurfaced Marina Road (Adnan Menderes Bulvari) was completed, a 250 metre stretch collapsed following an 11-hour rainfall on September 22. The affected part of the two-lane highway heads away from the bottom island close to Third Beach. The buckling of the road looks as if a major tremor…

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A Big Cup of Thanks

Julie Collings – Last Friday, at Caspers Bar, £305 on the day and £345 in total was raised by the local community who came together to support the MacMillan Cancer World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. Big thanks to Ozden Esgin and Kader, Casper Bar and staff for working extremely hard and Karen Dellar, Susan Maran and…

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Didim tourism to see “10 percent” drop

DIDIM Tourism Association fears that local hotels will see a ten percent drop overall for the 102015 season. Association chairman Ercüment Alkaner said that all stakeholders in the tourism sector throughout Turkey had suffered this year due to the loss in confidence in the country, the elections and the ongoing security situation. Antalya has reported…

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Didimspor’s fixture list for 2015/16

DIDIMSPOR will be facing some of their biggest local rivals in a new league this coming season. The team has been drawn in League 10, and will be coming up against arch rivals Soke, Kusadasi, Mugla, as well as teams from Izmir, Aydin and Denizli. Here is the recently declared fixture (although this can be…

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Let’s plan your wedding!

Advertorial: Let’s Group, an established business in Didim, offers a tailor-made, hassle-free service to make your dream wedding a reality in Turkey. Why? Well it’s cost effective, stress free and we can offer the best locations and ideal weather. Our most recent wedding was on the Siesta Boat on September 7 of couple Andrea Brown…

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United we stand, divided we fall

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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