Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Palace in Ankara

President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has built a 1,000 room presidential palace in Ankara.

1 comment:

Andreas said...

For what would you need 1000 rooms for?

Here are a few bits about

Turkey in the ‘Age of Erdogan’

"...with very little fanfare from sociologists, political scientists, and the international Left, Turkey has quietly been transformed into an aggressive, and deeply reactionary, country where civil and human rights are trampled under the weight of so-called “nationalism.”

"...a close analysis of Turkey in the ‘Age of Erdogan’ does reveal a country that has given over to violence as a political tool, repression and censorship as standard government practice, and sponsorship of terrorism as foreign policy. If it hasn’t already earned its fascist moniker, it may well be on its way.


www.globalresearch.ca/has-turkey-become-a-fascist-state/5477451#sthash.D0RAdmWI.dpuf

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