Bodrum Gumbet Forum Turkey

This is indeed a universal warning. I have received a letter from a reader who signed a promissory note that was not filled in properly. The guy signed for TL 1,000, but the other party simply added another one at the beginning of the number and made it 11,000. It sounds stupid.

Why should you sign a blank promissory note? It sounds very unlikely to happen to a sane person, isn’t it? However, a promissory note is the easiest instrument to issue as security. For a very simple transaction a foreign person may be required to put his/her signature on promissory notes in Turkish. My office dealt with several cases and defended foreign persons many times on fraud or abused promissory notes which were given as security with good will. Read the rest of this entry →

The yacht charter portal offers 100’s of gulet holidays in Turkey covering Istanbul, Cesme, Turgutries, Bodrum, Didim, Hisaronu, Marmaris, Datca, Gocek, Fethiye, Kas, Finike and Antalya as well as a secure booking system that allows clients to reserve and pay for a charter holiday on line.

“In this day and age the most successful gulet holiday companies are the ones that embrace new technologies and connect themselves directly with their target audiences,” said Jonathan Bowker, founder of Maritime Media.”What we do at Maritime Media is leverage these technologies and create mediums to distribute our customers messages. Our Social Media Framework does just that and is designed specifically to support the gulet charter industry and provides a new and unique way to our customers in Bodrum to reach their holiday maker customers and other interested parties directly.” Read the rest of this entry →

Turkey was awarded in the United States for its efforts to create a smoke-free environment. The “Global Smoke Free Partnership” award was given to the Turkish National Committee on Smoking and Health which has been working for 20 years to create a smoke-free environment with participation of more than 40 state institutions and non-governmental organizations.

Professor Elif Dagli, chairperson of the committee, received the award at a ceremony at the Hilton Baltimore Hotel. Speaking at the award ceremony, American Cancer Society Chairman Thomas Glynn said that despite all pressure by giant cigarette industry, Turkey had applied the smoking ban in public places successfully. He said that Turkey was the first Muslim country which put into practice a nationwide smoking ban. Read the rest of this entry →

The first time we ever went to Bodrum was in the summer of 2002. We were in Fethiye on holiday (for the third time) and a Turkish friend who was on holiday in Bodrum asked us to go and meet them there. Loads of travel advice from our hotel staff and we were off. Our first ‘big’ travel adventure in Turkey actually but again, that’s another story. We were there for one night and to be honest, for us, it was the night from hell. If you like the sort of place where you get bars with very loud outdoor music and they’re all in a row so you can’t actually hear one bit of music OR have a conversation, then maybe you would have liked Bodrum at that time. (I don’t know if Bodrum is still like that.) I personally thought it was awful – and then I woke up the morning after (about 8 am after going to bed at about 5am) and went for a walk… Read the rest of this entry →