Erdogan‘s life in splendor The appropriate environment for the President of the Turkish Republic
In a February 15, 2020 column in the Turkish daily Sözcü, investigative journalist Emin Çölaşan criticized President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan‘s construction of extravagant palaces
He counted three palaces that President Erdoğan‘s AKP government has in various stages of construction: one completed in Ankara; one under construction in Marmaris Okluk; and one by Lake Van Çölaşan wrote:
The nation is suffering a lot from hunger, from unemployment, from corruption Is it not a shame that money belonging to the nation and state is poured intothese palaces?
Since December 2015, President Erdoğan has resided at the Turkish Presidential Complex in Ankara, which, with 1,150 rooms, is often referred to as a the palace