06/02/2008 by Marmaris.

EasyCruise One - our first view

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Accommodation-only specialist youtravel.com has teamed up with easyCruise to take 20 top-selling agents on the inaugural cruise of the line’s second ship easyCruise Life.

The ship will leave Piraeus (Athens) on April 19 for the voyage - a week-long cruise around the Greek islands.

Ports of call include Syros and Samos, Kalymnos, Kos and Paros, and a 24-hour-stay in Mykonos. easyCruise Life will visit Turkey for the first time with a full day and night in Bodrum.

Youtravel.com has an exclusive deal with easyCruise meaning that agents can earn 15% commission on every booking they make at youtravel.com.

To celebrate the launch of easyCruise Life, youtravel.com is also offering a trade incentive of £10 per booking made before February 29.

Youtravel.com sales director Paul Riches said: “Not only will the winners have a chance to be the among the first to sail on the line’s new ship, they’ll also have the chance to meet easyCruise founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou who’ll be onboard for the first two days as the ship sails from Athens to Bodrum.”

Source - travelweekly.co.uk/

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06/02/2008 by Marmaris.

Kourioun Beach

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A two-year-old British girl is critically ill after being accidentally given dishwashing liquid to drink during a family holiday in Cyprus. Annabel Rhodes was rushed to hospital on Saturday afternoon after a hotel barman in Limassol, on the south coast of the island, diluted her orange juice with fluid from a clear bottle, thinking it was water.

Her father, Mark Rhodes, 55, also needed first-aid treatment for tasting the potentially lethal drink when his daughter started crying in agony. The youngster is breathing through a respirator in a critical but stable condition, staff at the Makarios Hospital in Nicosia said.

She suffered severe burns to her mouth, throat and upper respiratory organs, and could be permanently scarred, doctors said. The mistake occurred when Mr Rhodes ordered watered-down orange juice for his daughter from the 43-year-old barman at the Curium Palace hotel. “It appears the barman used a container which he thought contained water but was in fact dishwasher detergent,” a police spokesman said. “We are treating this as an accident as the person wasn’t to know there was a different liquid in the plastic water bottle,” she added.telegraph.co.uk

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04/02/2008 by Marmaris.

off plan development turkey

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Regulations and laws for foreigners who want to buy a private or commercial property in Turkey. Purchasing of properties in Turkey is only possible in according of the Turkish law.

The fully ownership of a property and the attachments is similar to the German property ownership regulations.
The “floor ownership” which is regulated in law no. 634 of 23/06/1965 is also similar to the ownership regulations and contents special ownership like a commonhold property, for example one floor together with a part of the common used area of the property.
The periodic property ownership (time sharing) was opened by law no 3227 of 10/06/1985. It is a variation of “floor ownership”, but with a temporary time in year for using the property for every one of the owners continually every year.

Foreign natural persons or legal persons are allowed to buy in according of the article 35 of the Turkish fundamental law (law no. 2644 of 22/11/1934 as amended and promulgated on 7/1/2006 , retroactive valid since 26/07/2006) by fullfilling the following conditions:

The first condition is the reciprocity. This means that Turkish natives and companies must have the same rights to buy a property in the country of these foreigners. Reciprocity can be guaranteed by bilateral agreements or national laws. The conditions of reciprocity is valid and fullfilled on the basis of the bilateral agreements of following european countries: Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, Greece, which have intergovermental agreements.For other countries the territorial regulations/modifications need a proof. By proof of reciprocity the law and legal practice has to be considered.
A foreign private person or a company is allowed to buy maximum 2,5 Hectare of land (complete sum of all properties which are ownership). The Turkish government has the right to enlarge it up to 30 Hectare. The data about the ownership and the rights of use of the foreigners are registered in a computer system where these data is open for all local land registry offices. So control is guaranteed. The owners have to sign a document where they ensure that they do not own more than 2,5 Hectare of land and will accept termless the sale of these land which is above the allowed capacity.
It is an exeption if the foreigner is heir by law. But also only up to 2,5 / 30 Hectar land if there is reciprocity .
Foreign natives is only allowed to buy properties in areas where qualified Floorplans and ownershiprights and rights of use are existing.
For the charge of property (for example mortgage) are these modifications not valid. There is also no proof of reciprocity.
Foreign companies of trade are only allowed to buy in according to special laws like support of Tourism, Industry, or oil
Apart from foreign natural persons or trading companies, a property ownership or rights of use is not possible for foreign foundations, clubs, or communities, funds in Turkey. The application of such institutions will be immediatly dismissed by the local land registry offices.
In defined areas foreign natural persons and legal persons are not allowed to buy properties or rights of use. This areas are : agricultural and mine areas, areas of irrigation, nature resorts, areas of energy production, areas which are important because of specialities of culture or religion, areas of important strategy and military zones.

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04/02/2008 by Marmaris.

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Originally uploaded by sheenaburns45

The night life in Marmaris is varied and cosmopolitan. There are hundreds of bars and night clubs of every description. The world famous Bar Street is comprised of bars and night clubs one after the other. Whatever your taste in music you can find it here until 4 a.m

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04/02/2008 by Marmaris.

Ataturk Museum in Ankara, Turkey

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A political science professor was convicted Monday of insulting the revered founder of modern Turkey and given a 15-month suspended prison sentence, a news report said. Atilla Yayla, a professor at Gazi University in Ankara and head of the Association for Liberal Thinking, was convicted of insulting the legacy of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

It is a crime in Turkey to insult Ataturk, the man who founded secular, modern Turkey from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire and is still revered here nearly 70 years after his death.
Gumbet News www.gumbetnews.com

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04/02/2008 by Marmaris.

20060629-02, originally uploaded by Wrappy.

Turkey must lift a ban on headscarves at university as part of democratic reforms aimed at European Union accession, Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said on Saturday. Turkey’s parliament is expected to approve a constitutional amendment next week sponsored by the ruling Islamist-rooted AK Party aimed at easing the ban for university students.

The headscarf debate is central to Turkey’s complex identity, as the young democracy struggles to meet the demands of both a pious Muslim population and also a secular, pro-Western elite that sees Islam as backwards. The EU has pressed Turkey to boost freedom of expression and minority rights but has no position on the headscarf issue.

“Turkey is a country which has to make political reforms to achieve the strategic goal of full membership in the European Union, which it has chosen,” Babacan told a news conference. France as well as some colleges in the Netherlands ban headscarves, while Britain and many other EU members allow the headscarf in the name of civil liberty.

Turkey’s government wants to expand freedoms to turn Turkey into a “first-class democracy where freedoms in all fields are enjoyed fully”, Babacan said. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan sought on Saturday to soothe secularist fears that lifting the ban would over time lead to heavy pressure on uncovered women to wear the headscarf.

“We are calm. Everyone is doing their duty and nobody should be disturbed by this. Here I see headscarved women as well as uncovered women. This is Turkey which we desire to see,” Erdogan told a gathering of his party. Babacan also said the furor on the headscarf issue and rising tensions taint Turkey’s image.

“Unfortunately an important part of the debate going on in these days is weakening Turkey’s image abroad,” he said. Secularists plan to hold a rally in Ankara on Saturday in protest of the government. Members of Turkey’s judiciary and top businessmen have already criticized the headscarf plan and the main opposition party, the secularist CHP, has said it will try to block the reform through the Constitutional Court.

Turkey’s powerful military, which views itself as the ultimate guarantor of the secular order, has made clear it is closely watching the debates, but has so far refrained from directly commenting on the headscarf proposal. (Reporting by Selcuk Gokoluk; Editing by Matthew Tostevin) Article - http://watandost.blogspot.com

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04/02/2008 by Marmaris.

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A Swedish court on Friday sentenced a 32-year-old HIV-positive Briton to 14 years in prison for having unprotected sex with 16 young girls and infecting two of them with the virus that causes Aids.
The man, Christer Merrill Aggett, who knew he was infected with HIV, was found guilty of aggravated sexual abuse of minors, and, in the case of the two girls infected, aggravated assault, according to the Solna district court’s verdict, a copy of which was obtained by AFP.

“He purposely chose girls who were underage,” the court said, according to Swedish news agency TT. The victims were aged betwen 12 and 14. Aggett, who has lived in Sweden for most of his life, met the girls on Internet chat rooms.

Between 2003 and 2006, he was reportedly in contact with more than 100 young girls, but the exact number with whom he had sexual relations is not known, TT said. Aggett was ordered to pay damages of 2,7 million kronor ($425 000) to the 16 victims, including 850 000 kronor ($133 000) to each of the two girls infected with HIV. - IOL

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03/02/2008 by Marmaris.

Marmaris, originally uploaded by DanDanelka.

The South-western ‘Turquoise’ coast of Turkey offers great value compared with Spain and Portugal - and its second-home market is growing fast. The two factors which have so far been holding the area back - poor accessibility and lack of mortgages for British buyers - are set to be addressed in 2008.

EasyJet has acquired GB Airways, which serves Turkey’s southern coast, and British Airways will start flying into Antalya on April 10.
In addition, there is also a new airport at Gazipasa. Routes have yet to be confirmed. A law allowing foreigners to obtain mortgages is currently being passed through parliament and will bolster the market further in early 2008.

‘Average price rises of 10-15% are realistic for 2008,’ says Julian Walker of Turkey specialist, Spot Blue. The downsides of this emerging market include negative perceptions of the political situation, a border with Iraq and the volatility of the Turkish currency, the lira.

You can pay anything between £25,000 for an apartment in Altinkum to £1m for a villa in the upmarket resorts of Kalkan, Kas or Bodrum.
Spot Blue (020 8339 6036, www.spotblue.co.uk) is selling two-bedroom villas in the golfing destination of Belek for £85,000.
SOURCE:spotblue.co.uk

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03/02/2008 by Marmaris.

pür-i pak (HAMMAM), originally uploaded by Huseyin Cetin.

The tradition of the Turkish bath extends far back, to a time before Turks had reached Anatolia. When the Turks arrived in Anatolia, they brought with them one bathing tradition, and were confronted with another, that of Romans and Byzantines, with certain local variants. The traditions merged, and with the addition of the Moslem concern for cleanliness and its concomitant respect for the uses of water, there arose an entirely new concept, that of the Turkish Bath. In time it became an institution, with its system of ineradicable customs.

For the Turkish bath was much more than just a place to cleanse the skin. It was intimately bound up with everyday life, a place where people of every rank and station, young and old, rich an poor, townsman or villager, could come freely. Women as well as men made use of the “hamam”, as the bath is known in Turkish, although of course at separate hours.

From the individual’s point of view, the hamam was a familiar place from the earliest weeks of life right up to its very end. Important occasions during a lifespan were, and in some township still are, celebrated with rejoicing at the bath. The newborn’s fortieth day, the brides bathing complete with food and live music, and the Avowal are instances. The latter requires some explanation, for it involved the custom common in Anatolia of making a promise or vow, contingent on the fulfillment of some important wish. The celebration of this in the hamam was arranged and paid for by the person fulfilling his vow, and was open to one and all.

The hamam ceremony of mourning, on the other hand, was far different, but also widespread. The Hospitality bathing was simply the taking of one’s house-guest to the hamam for a wash. Then there were the Circumcision, Groom’s, and Off-to-the-Army bathings, and others besides. As we see, the whole culture of a people had the Turkish bath as one of its important nexuses.

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02/02/2008 by Marmaris.

Turkish Meal-Istanbul.Turkey, originally uploaded by Ms N.

Food in Marmaris is either extremely good or disappointing. The good part is the very fresh organic produce which taste much better than its cultured counterpart. Fruit and vegetables are extremely cheap and if you are on a self catering holiday, you will have no problem here. There are lots of small grocery shops and two large supermarkets. English is not well catered for in the shops, the vast majority of items are Turkish and sometimes you are not sure what you are buying. Take a Turkish friend with you for advice.

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