According to the news in Travelmole, Corendon Airline has started taking reservations for the summer of 2024. Corendon Airlines today announced the launch of their summer 2024 flight schedule to Dalaman, this is in addition to their 2024 Antalya programme, which was launched earlier this year. The airline reported ‘strong early sales’ so far for…
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A British woman who spent 16 months in prison in Turkey after being accused of pushing her boyfriend to his death off a balcony has flown home after being freed. Kayley Myers, 32, has been acquitted of the murder of Reece Pegram, and insisted: “I didn’t kill him.” Mr Pegram, 22, was found dead in…
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Joe Martin, 25, and Kieran Brown, 28, are two part-time travelers with proverbial day jobs that have taken on the full-on challenge of traveling from Asia to London with no money. This means they are taking each day as it comes, hoping and sometimes pleading for a meal and accommodation and hitchhiking for most of…
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AN expert has sounded the alarm over a concerning shift in the seasons, which he claims is a direct consequence of climate change. This shift, lasting approximately three weeks, has raised fears of detrimental effects on crop yield and harvest. Professor Zeynep Zaimoğlu, a member of the Department of Environmental Engineering at Çukurova University, spoke…
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SunExpress, a joint venture between Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines, is to offer 41 weekly flights from Manchester Airport to popular holiday destinations in Turkey from summer 2024. The airline will increase its flight frequency to Antalya, Dalaman and Izmir throughout the summer of 2024. Antalya and Dalaman will be served with up to three daily…
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Exaggerated housing prices, a declining lira, and people wondering whether houses in Turkey can be used as an investment tool are all causing the sector to take stock this summer. In real terms, housing prices have decreased in foreign currency terms and could fall further with the ailing lira. While house prices have been above…
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TOURISM authorities in Turkey are working with the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) on a groundbreaking programme to achieve sustainability certification for all the country’s hotels. A GSTC conference recently convened in Antalya with the project already underway, with hundreds of auditors trained to verify hotels operate to GSTC-recognised standards and hundreds more on the…
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House sales increased by 24.2 percent in January-July from a year ago, while sales to foreigners grew more than 57 percent year-on-year, data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) have shown. A total of 820,300 units changed hands in the first seven months of the year, TÜİK reported on Aug. 16. House sales to foreigners…
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Turkey’s tourism revenues nearly tripled in the second quarter while first-half foreign visitor numbers surged close to 2019 levels, data has showed. Revenues surged 190% from a year earlier to $8.72 billion in the April-June period, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) data showed. In June, the number of foreign visitors arriving in Turkey leaped 145%…
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A WELSH-born woman, who rubbed shoulders with late-1950 London glitterati before relocating to live among Istanbul’s ‘aristocrats’, has provided an extraordinary and evocative insight into her life. “Lady Who, Memoirs of a not so ordinary life in Turkey” is a remarkable 60-year memoir from Joan Kim Erkan. ‘Kim’ means ‘Who” in Turkish. Arriving on February…
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