THE BIGGEST live Northern Soul and Motown Dance Night this side of the Aegean has been rescued – thanks to Voices Newspaper. Voices has stepped in to guarantee the first ever Northern Soul event on Turkish soil in two years – the V50 – goes ahead at the fully air-conditioned Zaya Night Club at The…
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EXCLUSIVE A BRITISH couple are trying to find a former Didim complex manager who has gone missing with £32,000of their life-savings to be used for their ultimate wedding present. Keeron Jones, and his wife Helena Jarvis-Jones, from Neath, South Wales, entrusted the money with Mustafa Pekel in October 2012 to pay another British man for…
Read MoreCONTRADICTORY messages were emerging from state hospitals this week about the charges for consultation and treatment being doubled. People without insurance and tourists presently pay 15.50TL, but there were rumblings from some expat quarters that this could be doubled to 30TL.
Read MoreTHE latest news from the Residence Permit front is that some permits for Didim foreign residents should be trickling into the town soon. In an update from a Voice’s reader, who has SGK, rents and has had a police visit, they commented on the final stages of the application process.
Read MoreTHE streets around Didim Market are a lot quieter and better to walk on after a crackdown banished itinerant sellers. The operation, promised by Didim Mayor Deniz Atabay, has also been backed by advertising hoardings declaring the council’s war on reclaiming the streets for its residents.
Read MoreONE of the new bins installed in Didim has gobbled up an unfortunate young man. The man, who was finishing up clearing the waste at a barber’s shop in town, somehow deposited the rubbish and himself into one of the new bins which have underground storage for the trash.
Read MoreDIDIM State Hospital is set to open a new four-bed state-of-the-art intensive care unit following a 600,000TL injection. Ongoing construction of the emergency services building is close to finishing and hospital bosses have slated its opening for June 15.
Read MoreApollo Temple road changes Meanwhile, in Eskiköy, the area around the Apollo Temple, efforts were beginning to uproot a road at the southern end of the village which had apparently been lain illegally. Dated April 2, 2014, the Protection Board and Miletus Museum wrote to Didim Council ordering the paved road to be dismantled. The…
Read MoreKlaus Jurgens THERE are moments in life when a little knowledge of a foreign language goes a long way – more so when you are in a far-away land where English is not spoken by everyone. How many British, French or German citizens would be able to fluently converse in for example Spanish or Turkish?…
Read MoreA BRITISH resident has issued an alert to other expats in Didim after she was contacted by a person claiming to be from the police. Rita Bootland said she received a call from “police” asking if she had lost a photocopy of her my kimlik as they had found one.
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