Erdogan, world's most extravagant president

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is causing widespread controversy in his country as the parties that oppose him spend large sums of money that are “massive” and used for “unnecessary” purposes. 

The main opposition party in Turkey, the Republican People, led by Kemal Kılıçdarolu, announced that the cost of the country’s president’s bodyguards was more than 263 million Turkish liras (the equivalent of US $ 35 million).

As of last year 2020 the spending of Erdogan’s Presidential Palace estimated 10 million Turkish liras (the equivalent of roughly one million and 300,000 US dollars) a day .

Engin Altay, an MP for the main opposition party, said that “Turkey has a president who is the most extravagant in the world”, criticizing that “there is no country in the world whose president is the same.” Spends money from Erdogan. “

He also revealed that the Turkish president “uses a hundred cars and two helicopters when he comes to parliament to insult his opponents,” as he put it.

3 Turkish analysts declined to comment on the amount of money Erdogan and his party had spent fearing security prosecution. However, a political analyst said that “the president’s palace contains more than a thousand rooms and therefore requires a lot of money.” 

“The economic recession in Turkey is great, but the presidential palace never gives up its spending, which increases the anger of the opposition who are constantly addressing this issue in parliament,” said Cevad Goc, a Turkish political analyst.

He added that “the ruling coalition, which includes Justice and Development Party and the nationalist movement, is refusing to give up the huge funds used for the president and his palace after the opposition parties do so had requested. “

He added: “The Turkish President spends a lot of money personally because he believes that the deliberation is not extravagance as he is only doing it for personal reasons.”

The criticism of the Turkish opposition doesn’t just stop with the president. Senior officials also received many criticisms, most of which related to the use of two planes by two ministers while visiting the same city at the same time. 

Whenever there is a financial crisis in Turkey, the opposition parties demand that the president give up his huge palace due to the high costs and expenses it requires, but the ruling coalition always refuses.