Posted on 02/03/2015 7:44:19 AM PST by george76
Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he isn't a sultan - rather he wishes to be like the Queen in a constitutional monarchy - but his actions suggest otherwise. He lives in the world's biggest residential palace that cost £384 million .
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Erdogan's White Palace .. boasts 1,000 rooms and has a total floor area of 3.1 million square feet. This makes it four times the size of Versailles, home of the lavish Louis XIV, the “Sun King” of France.
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the "quixotic architectural style seems to cross the Ottoman and Seljuk traditions with that of a modern Chinese railway station". Then there's the silk wallpaper.
The former Turkish prime minister also spent £115 million on a new presidential jet.
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There are also his recent comments on the Armenian genocide ... Turkey still denies it and disputes the figure of 1.5 million killed.
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When images emerged of the president posing with warriors dressed in attire dating back as far as 200 BC, Game of Thrones jokes abounded.
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The Arabic-alphabet Ottoman language is returning .
This is one that is sure to upset his opponents, which include the party of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the Republican People's Party (CHP). Ataturk abolished the Ottoman language in 1928 and replaced its Arabic alphabet with a Latin one.
Now Erdogan wants a return to the Arabic alphabet, forcefully declaring that it would be taught in schools and compulsory to learn.
"Whether they like it or not, the Ottoman language will be learnt and taught in this country," he said last month.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Property in Vienna is crashing....
Ours IS a queen
Wow, that’s a pretty big place. I certainly couldn’t live there, I have a problem dusting and vacuuming the little place I live in.............
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