Marmaris Guidebook

Heavy rains hit Muğla’s Milas and Marmaris districts Thursday causing floods in many houses and workplaces.

The rain started at 6 a.m. in Milas and poured down for three hours. One of the flooded workplaces was a textile workshop in the Aydınlık Evler neighborhood, which belongs to Hüseyin Aydın.

Aydın said the water level in the workshop reached the machinery. “We tried to take the machines out,” he said. “We will try to reestablish the workshop once we can clean the flood water.”
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Qatar royal family has bought a five-star hotel in Marmaris town of southwestern province of Mugla.

The company owned by Qatar’s Amir Sheikh Ahmad Ali al-Thani bought Munamar Hotel in Icmeler hamlet in Marmaris, officials said. Al-Maselah Construction and Industry Co. paid 22 million Turkish lira for the hotel. (One dollar equals 1.48 TL)
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A villa in the popular resort town of Marmaris belonging to a former Turkish president has been on the market for two years but remains unsold because it is overpriced, a real estate expert said.

Kenan Evren, who led the Sept. 12, 1980 coup and later became Turkey’s seventh president, wants to sell his villa located in Marmaris’ Artmutalan neighborhood.
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Animal rights activists in the Aegean city of Muğla protested the Marmaris Municipality arguing that the animals kept in a shelter are not well taken care of.

Activists gathered on Tuesday in the Sınırsızlık Square of the resort city with their dogs and banners expressing that animals at the shelter are abused and half of them were left to die outside of Marmaris.

Speaking on behalf of the protestors, Türkan Dağdelen, chairwoman of the Friends of Animals Association’s, or HAYDOST, Ortaca branch argued that 140 animals have been abandoned outside the city in the last three years.”

A recent Marmaris Municipal Council decision to change the name of the town’s main street has caused a reaction in the popular resort town.

Earlier this week, the council in the Aegean town changed the name of Kenan Evren Boulevard to Cumhuriyet (Republic) Boulevard on the strength of the majority votes from Republican People’s Party, or CHP, council members.

The opposition Justice and Development Party, or AKP, did not support the name change.

Kenan Evren was the leader of the Sept. 12, 1980 military coup and later became the seventh president of Turkey. He settled in Marmaris when he left office in 1989.
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