Alaçatı

Stars gleaming green

"İzmir'in dağlarında çiçekler açar!" / "Flowers bloom on the mountains of İzmir!" These words of the much-popular Izmir anthem were ringing in my ears as I left the celebration after the Michelin Guide ceremony in Istanbul. The second edition of the highly anticipated results for Türkiye was announced on Nov. 9.

Summer house rents soaring ahead of holiday season

Holidaymakers are already searching for summer houses to spend their vacation in Turkey's coastal towns but only to find that rent prices have skyrocketed.

On average, the rent of an apartment in the tourist hotspot Bodrum, on the Aegean coast, is now around 30,000 Turkish Liras ($2,000), while prices for luxury units can go up to between 100,000 and 250,000 euros.

Nightclub bodyguards kill 33-year-old man in Alaçatı

Alaçatı, a tourism hotspot in the Aegean province of İzmir, has once again come to the country's agenda, but this time not for its magnificent beaches to promote tourism but for a series of events publicly called "bodyguard terror" that has shadowed the neighborhood for almost a year now.

In the recent chain of events, two bodyguards of a nightclub killed a 33-year-old man.

Turkey’s famous windsurfing spot draws attention with stone houses

Alaçatı, Turkey's leading spot in windsurfing and standing out with its architecture and authentic stone houses, is expected to have a dynamic tourism season this year.

Alaçatı, known as an infantry and cavalry village in the Ottoman period, is now one of the most popular tourist destinations in Turkey. Its historical stone houses and cobblestones are a symbol of the western town.

Forgetting disasters

There are so many similar stories like this…

This time it is from the Aegean district of Soma, struck by a mine coal disaster in 2014 that killed 301 miners. 

Several campaigns were run after the mine disaster; this was the one of them. 

Projects emphasizing on sports were held to overcome the trauma of Soma.

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