If you want to work or get a job in Kusadasi or Turkey or search for jobs in Kusadasi Turkey has become a business hub for many companies and some of them are now moving their headquarters here. This raises an issue that I have written several articles related to: work permits. I still receive [...]
This week I have taken the liberty of writing about my own complaints regarding a new procedure that makes life more difficult for nothing. The heading above is inspired by expats’ complaints regarding local regulations, which are already difficult for foreigners to understand. I want to let you know that you are not alone in [...]
Why would someone beat someone else? What a nasty topic to write about. I selected this heading greatly disturbed in my mind and heart. My first choice for the heading was “woman killers,” but then I felt that would be too strong. It is even difficult to write about this, but the extent of violence [...]
Kusadasi, which has only a permanent population of about 10.000, is situated on the west coast of Turkey on the Aegean Sea. What makes the location so attractive, are the high mountains souring behind, the bays and islands off shore and the proximity to such famous historical sites as Ephesus, Miletos and Didyma. For visitors [...]
Kusadasi is a pretty sea, the Aegean Sea off the city with a rich history. Has been a middle of art & culture not only in Turkey but also of lots of civilizations, from its founding in 3000 BC Today, it resembles a contemporary European city. The popular resort town of Kusadasi in Aydin province, [...]
We’re in Kusadasi today. This has been an amazing cruise so far. Since I last posted a blog for you, we’ve had an overnight call to Istanbul, have been to Romania, and have called to 2 Ukrainian ports as well. Let me tell you about Istanbul first, because that’s obviously the highlight port of this Mediterranean [...]
Kusadasi can get very busy with tourist and local and has famoust bar street that impress many holiday makers however many other bars in and around Kusadasi this days. Kusadasi ideally connotes Bird Island. The Kusadasi Turkey sequences in a mind-blowing gulf in the Aegean region of Turkey. Kusadasi is renowned for its bluish-green glittering [...]
“Hi, we live on a small communal area which consists of six villas, no pool but has a garden, etc. My husband manages the upkeep of the garden and any maintenance [of walls, pump, etc., and gardener fees]. Five villas pay their TL 25 per month for this but one has not paid for five [...]
Turkey enjoys increasingly growing number of tourists visiting Turkey this year and it has seen nearly 11 percent increase in the first seven months this year, Turkish government says. Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry data shows that Turkey received 17,624,969 tourists in the first seven months – 10.64 percent increase compared to the same period [...]
According to official data by the Land Registry Directorate’s Foreigner Affairs Unit, foreigners from a staggering 89 countries across the world have purchased approximately 111,200 estates across Turkey with some 35,249 Brits owning 24,848 properties, putting the UK on a pedestal as one of the most popular buyers of Turkish property followed by Germany and [...]
The teenage daughter of one of the two women murdered while on holiday in Turkey has arrived back in Northern Ireland. Fifteen-year-old Shannon Graham landed in Belfast on a flight from London Heathrow with her father Raymond McGuinness and brother David. Her mother Marion Graham and best friend Cathy Dinsmore, both in their 50s, were [...]
Our Kusadasi facebook page is now live and we are loving this new interactive world. It is so great to feel closer to our customers and hear your feedback, ideas and comments about local resort and surronding areas of course with little bit of gossips, offers and reviews of Kusadasi. You can join our Kusadasi [...]
The Astana rider had too much speed for Lampre’s Italian veteran Alessandro Petacchi at the end of the 181km stage from Kusadasi. Ella Favilli was a distant third with Garmin speedster Tyler Farrar fading to sixth after losing out to Andrea Guardini in Sunday’s opening stage. The 30-year-old Kazakh takes the overall lead as Guardini relinquished the [...]
Living in Beyoglu is nice but noisy. It has its own flavor, and not everyone feels happy about the offerings of Beyoglu. I received an email from a reader who is disturbed by the violence from a bar in Beyoglu. The letter reads as follows: “Your columns dealing with legal issues are always helpful. It [...]
When buying or selling property in Turkey, parties were able to declare a price to the land registry regardless of the actual real sales price. Most people would declare a lower price in order to pay less in transfer tax. This practice is now a thing of the past because a new regulation has been [...]
I have realized that we use the word foreigner, in Turkish “yabancı,” a lot. I mean it. I don’t know how foreigners living in Turkey feel about this, but I would probably feel strange, if not foreign. An American friend was really affected by this word. It was like a running joke, and she didn’t [...]
HIV acquired in the UK doubled
A doubling of new HIV infections in the UK in the past decade is leading experts to tell GPs to offer testing to all adult male patients in some areas,” reported BBC News. The news report is based on the latest data, which showed that new diagnoses of HIV acquired in the UK have nearly doubled [...]
The healthiest way to lose weight
After reading many topics and articles regarding loosing weight we have decided to let you know best and health options to loose weight with out doing anything or exercise because of life style sometimes can be hard to exercise but if you are in Kusadasi or Ladies Beach don’t forget amazing golden sand beach perfect [...]
I recently received the following question: “I am getting married to a Turk soon. I am a foreign citizen and a resident of Turkey. I have been told that I needed to get my birth certificate translated into Turkish, which I have done. I have also been told that the Turkish authorities might need other [...]
British business down the river
Pressure had been building on a number of fronts, but the issue which finally destroyed her was the yet-to-be-born euro. In the last weekend of October 1990, she travelled to a European summit in Rome, where Jacques Delors’ dream of European Monetary Union was high on the agenda. But while Mrs. Thatcher was fighting her [...]