http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/06/cockroaches-made-me-want-new-palace-says-turkeys-erdogan/

If cockroaches infest someone’s
house or office, they might put
down some poison or maybe call in
the pest-controllers.
But President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan of Turkey had a more
radical solution. The presence of
cockroaches in his old offices, he
revealed in an interview, were the
reason why he needed a vast new
presidential palace outside Ankara.
Erdogan’s new $615 million
presidential palace in the outskirts
of Ankara has been ridiculed by the
opposition as the tasteless and
needless extravagance of an
increasingly authoritarian leader.
But in an interview with A-Haber
television broadcast late Friday,
Erdogan said his reasons for
needing the 1,150-room palace
palace were much more mundane.
He said his old offices when he was
prime minister from 2003-2014
were infested with cockroaches.
“A guest would come to the old
prime ministry office and find
cockroaches in the bathroom.
That’s why we built this palace.”
“Does such a place befit the prime
ministry of Turkey? If a guest
comes are you going to put them
there? If they see this, what if they
tell what they saw?” he asked.
Erdogan has always defended the
building of the palace, saying it is a
worthy symbol of the new Turkey
he is trying to build.
He has already hosted high-ranking
guests there, including Russian
President Vladimir Putin and Pope
Francis.
Erdogan’s election to the
presidency in August 2014 led to a
musical chairs of palaces, with him
moving to the new palace and
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
moving to the old presidential
palace in central Ankara, the
Cankaya.
Neither leader now uses the old
prime ministry offices.
The new palace has been the
subject of a sometimes farcical
dispute in the run-up to Sunday’s
legislative elections between
Erdogan and the main opposition
leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who
accused him of having golden toilet
seats there.
Erdogan dared Kilicdaroglu to
personally come to the palace and
find the toilet seats, saying he
would resign if he found any.
His lawyer then filed a lawsuit
seeking 100,000 Turkish Liras ($
37,300) in compensation for
slander from Kilicdaroglu over the
golden toilet comment.




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