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| Istanbul’s Yıldız Palace ‘allocated’ for Turkish president | |
| 2015-11-09 | |
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , a Turkish columnist wrote on Nov. 8, sparking a debate over the use by statesmen of the area which included large green parks. Yildiz Palace, built on a Besiktas hill near the Bosphorus Strait was used by Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II (1876-1909) as the center of state affairs. At the time it was known as the Saray-i Humayun (Central Palace). The Buyuk Mabeyn section of the palace was recently renovated and allocated for Erdogan's use, Murat Bardakci wrote in his column for daily Haberturk on Nov. 8. Erdogan hosted German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... in Buyuk Mabeyn during her latest visit to Istanbul. Barakci said the entire palace will now be allocated for the use of the president and the rest of the palace will be renovated. He also noted Yildiz Palace will then be called the "Presidential Istanbul Kulliye." A recently built presidential palace in Ankara's Bestepe neighborhood was named the "Presidential Kulliye" by Erdogan, who said the huge building will serve the people and will be open to visits by citizens on tours. The palace was left to the War Academies in 1946 and handed over to the Culture Ministry in 1978. It has served as a museum under the name of the Directorate of the Museum of Yildiz Palace since 1993. | |
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