10 people killed at the airport entrance it seems on first reports.
Been through there are few times, never once thought it was dangerous.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36658187
Last edited by: sooty123 on Tue 28 Jun 16 at 21:30
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Dreadful. When will he hate in the world causing this end....
Turkey wouldn't be on my list of destination these days anyway. But I know it's popular with many, even some of us on here.
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I don't understand attacks in Turkey.
Turkey is somewhat sympathetic to ISIS. Then why these terrorists killing muslims in Turkey?
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Read this.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey–ISIL_conflict
It gives a reasonable precis of the situation
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Does anyone more or less sane have any idea why these people want to commit random mass murder of people going on holiday?
I haven't a clue myself. I'm sure the Turkish fuzz aren't perfect but they are on the right side in my book. The more random murderers they kill the better.
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The organisation wishes to be a visible and scary problem forcing people to acknowledge and deal with it. In particular the clue is in the word "terror".
The individuals who attack voluntarily want to be "important" and admired, usually as a result of significant feelings of inadequacy or lack of control.
And there are other vulnerable or inadequate individuals who get caught up in it for one reason or another.
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It seems 41 people have died and nearly 250 injured. No surprise in a large packed building, still with amount of police about I'm surprised it is so high. They seemed to be everywhere last time I went through.
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I'm really looking forward to my holiday to Turkey early next month. A country I have never visited...different culture & language so I'm swotting up on the history of the place and will try to learn a few basic phrases.
Thanks to TripAdvisor I hope to find a local guide who might lead small group parties to places of interest. It's a nice hotel, with air con gym, pool & sea swimming but I won't be like many tourists ( that seems the wrong word really) and spending my days flop n drop on a lounger.
No point taking unnecessary risks, but I believe in fate, and if your numbers up...apologies if that seems harsh to those affected by the latest atrocity, but it's my philosophy.
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I'm sure you will love Turkey. Stunningly beautiful and the food is some of the best in the world.
CaN I recommend "Birds Without Wings" as some holiday reading. It's by the same author as Captain Correlli's Mandolin and cover the period when Ataturk rose to power. A great read and gives a good insight into a critical period of Turkish history.
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Much appreciated. Will either buy the paperback or download tomorrow, although I'm drifting back to the paper editions at the moment!
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Are you flying into Istanbul LL ?
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Nope, it's Bodrum
Not Dalman ( which doesn't exist although Dalaman does)
My brain works better after a pint, this abstention does me no favours
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Is it on the coast? Never been to the coast in Turkey, only really been to the interior.
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Dalaman airport is where the majority of Brits go for the coast of Turkey.
I have been many times always been treated with respect and we had good holidays.Nice boat trips and good food.I have never understood this anti Turkey sentiment here maybe just me.
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Dalaman airport itself is a bit grim. Lots of concrete and grey paint and the biggest mark up on a can of Coca Cola I have ever come across. I think it's a military airport and I seem to member all civilian departures are night flights unless things have changed.
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Last time I was there about seven eight years ago.From there coaches take you to your destination.A bit grim yes.
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I think quite a few of a airports in Turkey are half military, half civilian. How much was the can of pop?
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I'm off to Greece next week. We fly to Preveza which is a military airfield too. Not that you'll see much going on.
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Dreadfully sad! There are some evil people in this world!
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I got back from Egypt on Sat, second visit within 3 months. Blooming hot there...all day and all night...
Been to Turkey, pretty sure we flew into Dalaman too. Enjoyed it and I'd go back but SWMBO won't go to places she considers risky. (I'm not working and she still is, hence me getting in some travel). Turkey was great, the hotel was superb and the people friendly.
I feel sorry for these countries who have quite a dependency on tourism but then get bad reputation often really through no real fault of their own.
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I've just had an email from a friend in CA asking if I was still going to Turkey. Course I am... Doing my bit to help their economy, hopefully make some Muslim friends and discover a small part of an unvisited country.
Probably safer than downtown Sacramento at night....
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Flew to Preveza last year. Thought I'd landed at the wrong place.
No delays for you (unless you're going from Heathrow... :-)
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I have not been to Egypt for about ten years, when there last I had a couple of internal flights, Aswan to Abu Simbal and back. We were warned not to take any photographs at or near either airport due to military use. Tunisia was equally twitchy about cameras near military kit or infrastructure.
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We flew into Prevesa 20 years ago...no problem, bus to Sivota waiting for us. Coming back, the terminal was really primitive...duty free seemed to sell only cuddly toys and there were only 2 toilets. One had no seat and the other had no working flush. It was stinking hot and, boy, did we know it.
Nowhere to sit so the entire flight went up the road to a roundabout where an enterprising Greek had set up an open air taverna in the central island.
I wonder if it's improved !
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>> the terminal was really primitive.... I wonder if it's improved !
Not really :-)
There is talk of extending Preveza Aktion airport so more flights can be handled. Corfu can't handle more and there are many people who fly to the Epirus region via Corfu.
It's a shame EasyJet has not started flying from more UK airports to Preveza. There's a few flights a week from Gatwick.
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>the terminal was really primitive.... I wonder if it's improved !
We've flown into Prevesa a few times when we've chartered boats based in Sivota. Grabbing your cases straight off the baggage truck is excellent. They should do the same at Heathrow ;-)
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I think you've cheated there Kevin getting luggage :-)
But the airport is currently very basic. A bit bigger than some we fly to! You could probably land an A380 at Preveza (long runway) but they'd not have steps able to reach the plane :-)
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Istanbul airport attack - rtj70
