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raising prices we found, there was 25 July – 8 August = £722 (HEATHROW) – LARNACA exams early. We paid £350 per person
no significant price difference be- 15 August – 29 August = £699 AIRPORT SOUTH CYPRUS for the period from 12 July to 31 July,
tween airline companies for each 25 July – 8 August = £2801.48 it would have been much more if they
dentations. JET2 (STANSTED) (2 adults – two teens 12-15) had gone a week later. We paid £1,400
– MUĞLA (BODRUM) for 3 people last Easter, about £500
PEGASUS (STANSTED) 25 July – 8 August = £893 The cheapest price option for a per person. Why? Everyone has to pay
– ANTALYA 15 August – 29 August = £735 family holiday fighting to Antalya because the schools are on holiday. The
25 July – 8 August = £679 during the same period we found biggest obstacle for families with chil-
15 August – 29 August = £756 PEGASUS (STANSTED) – GA- were: dren is the airline companies. Families
ZİANTEP do not go to Turkey by car for nothing.
TURKISH AIRLINES 25 July – 8 August = £688 TURKISH AIRLINES “Nothing affects price like strong de-
(HEATHROW) – ANTLAYA 15 August – 29 August = £699 (8 (STANSTED) – ANTALYA mand. The summer of 2021 provides
25 July – 8 August = £811 hours waiting time on the way back) 25 July – 8 August some stimulus for air travel domes-
15 August – 29 August = £816 (Four adults – 12+) = £3621.56 tically, while 2022 looks even more
TURKISH AIRLINES Bilge Tana promising at home and abroad. The
BRITISH AIRWAYS (HEATHROW) – GAZİANTEP PEGASUS (STANSTED) removal of mask authorization on the
(HEATHROW) – ANTALYA 25 July – 8 August = £845 – ANTALYA some reason it is much more expensive plane has only fuelled this growing
25 July – 8 August = £712 15 August – 29 August = £910 25 July – 8 August in July and August. This is theft.” interest in travel. Flights are pretty
15 August – 29 August = £765 No flights to Gaziantep are availa- (Two adults – two teens 12+) = full today and good airline deals are
ble with British Airways or Jet2. £3171.96 SERHAT İNALÖZ getting harder to find as the summer
JET2 (STANSTED) – ANTALYA In addition we also researched “I'm having the same problem as heats up.”
25 July – 8 August = £893 how much average family of four BRITISH AIRWAYS
15 August – 29 August = £735 would be looking to pay for their (STANSTED) – ANTALYA CAHIT DEMIR
summer holidays. We looked at how 25 July – 8 August “Airfares are very expensive. I want
PEGASUS (STANSTED) much a family (2 adults and 2 teens) (Two adults – two teens +14) = to go with my children, but I'm consid-
– IZMIR would cost to travel to Cyprus and £2818.48 ering going by car after the plane pric-
25 July – 8 August = £689 Antalya at the start of the summer es. Despite the increase in fuel prices,
15 August – 29 August = £680 holidays in July. WIZZAIR (STANSTED) it is still more convenient to go by car
We have looked at the cheapest – ANTALYA with the family, however, car prices
TURKİSH AİRLİNES options available which may have 24 July – 7 August have increased a lot in England and it
(HEATHROW) - İZMİR varying transit hours and airports (Two adults – two teens 14+) = is very difficult to find a suitable car.
25 Temmuz – 8 Ağustos = £796 departures from London. All prices £2211.12 Tickets have increased dramatically
15 Ağustos – 29 Ağustos = £591 found on Monday 23 May include a We ask members of the communi- this year. It is unbelievable that the
cabin bag, seat and luggage fees. ty members if they plan with their tickets costing £100 in the winter sea-
BRITISH AIRWAYS Flight prices found for a family of summer holiday and how they feel Serhat İnalöz son are between £700 and £800 in the
(HEATHROW) – IZMIR four to Cyprus: about the price. summer. You don't just stop with plane
No flight options available everyone else. My son is 16 years old tickets there are additional vacation
• TURKISH AIRLINES BIGE TANA and we have to wait for the school expenses as well. Therefore, this situ-
JET2 (STANSTED) – IZMIR (HEATHROW) - ERCAN “We wanted to go on vacation, but holidays to travel abroad, so the tick- ation especially affects families with
Only package holiday options AIRPORT NORTH CYPRUS we were unaware of the prices. In this et prices are also very expensive. I am children more.”
available 25 July – 8 August = £3251.84 case, of course, it is difficult to go, we currently researching the price for the
(Four adults 12+) are a large family and these prices are October half-term holiday and it is
PEGASUS (STANSTED) extraordinarily expensive. In this case, around £450 per person. Before and
– MUĞLA (BODRUM) PEGASUS (STANSTED) everyone has to take a step, if every- after the half-term holiday, flight
25 July – 8 August = £755 - ERCAN AIRPORT one does not react en masse, they will ticket prices are£ 80 – 90 pounds.
15 August – 29 August = £766 NORTH CYPRUS have to reduce these prices. We need to A system has now been established,
be united. When it is summer season,
25 July – 8 August = £3251.96 they willingly increase these prices. automatic prices increase during the
TURKISH AIRLINES (Two adults – two teens 12+) My son went to Turkey for £200 three school term. In the normal period,
(HEATHROW) days ago, but two months later the they make the tickets cheap so that the
- MUĞLA (BODRUM) WIZZAIR (LUTON) prices are around £700 - £900. Air- planes do not go empty, but when the
25 July – 8 August = £921 - LARNACA AIRPORT lines consciously raise prices during schools are on holiday and they know
15 August – 29 August = £591 SOUTH CYPRUS school holidays, but this year there has that people will have to travel, they
25 July – 8 August = £2198.96 been a serious increase. Fuel cannot be make the prices three or four times
BRITISH AIRWAYS (Two adults – two teens 14+) presented as a reason, you can go to higher. This summer, my son and my
(HEATHROW) Turkey for £200 this month with the wife will go to Turkey before the school Cahit Demir
– MUĞLA (BODRUM) BRITISH AIRWAYS same distance, the same fuel, but for holidays because he finished his GCSE

ASUK celebrated their 25th Anniversary and 19th May with joy

THE Atatürk Society UK (ASUK) education. ASUK chair Jale Özer in Istanbul, preventing his arrest
celebrated the 19th May Com- welcome guests to the event say- at that time, and knitting the way
memoration of Atatürk, Youth ing: “One of the most important to Liberation by knot by knot. He
and Sports Day as well as its 25th features of a nation being a na- lit the fire of the war in Samsun.
Anniversary on Saturday, May 21. tion is that it has a common his- That’s why May 19 is the key
On Saturday evening members tory and a common destiny. day to save the country and turn
of ASUK and community mem- Under the leadership of Musta- towards liberation.”
bers celebrated together in south fa Kemal Atatürk, the people of Adding that “our primary goal
London, with food and drinks Turkey started the War of Inde- in all our activities since our es-
and live performances from mu- pendence against the imperialist tablishment is to help our young
sicians. Among the honoured powers of the period on May 19, people living abroad absorb
guests of the night was the Chair 1919, with the understanding of Atatürk’s thought as a philosophy
of The Association for Supporting either independence or death. of life and to take part in the so-
Contemporary(CYDD) Life and an Our Great Leader, before start- ciety as educated and enlightened
award-winning teacher and writer ing the War of Independence, individuals in the country they
Dilek Livaneli. thought about every little detail, live in.
Donations from the event will choosing his friends to set out We are trying to establish this
be given to CYDD which focuses with, and applying a very subtle awareness in the conferences,
on supporting girls who face life strategy against the representa- seminars and national holiday
adversities that interrupt their tives of the imperialist countries celebrations we organise…”