Holly shit. Canada’s last government refused to spend $10,000,000 on renovating our prime minister’s residence. Our current government is slowing renovating 24 Sussex Drive but it’s still a political hot potato and we frequently hear about cost overruns. By comparison this guy is built a 1 Billion dollar estate for himself even though Turkey has less than half the gdp of Canada.
My country doesn’t have residences for our ministers and presidents. We expect them to go home in the evening or stay in a hotel. There definitely would be a revolution if our politicians even contemplated building a monstrosity like Erdogan.
“Living like a Saudi sheik at the expense of his nation.” If history has taught us anything, any ruler who did just that eventually got violently overthrown. I hope Erdogan soon learns this the hard way.
I mean the military tried to overthrow him a few years ago - it failed so miserably that you barely hear about it anymore. Look up the 2016 Coup d'état. Sizeable portions of the I. and II. Armies (Turkey has 4), parts of the Gendamerie (Military Police) Command and the Presidential Guard Regiment couped in an attempt to try and reestablish Atatürk's Kemalist ideals. They had several warships, 35 planes (24 of which were fighter jets), 74 tanks, 172 armored vehicles and 37 helicopters along with around 11 thousand soldiers. They failed - spectacularly.
Erdogan did much for Turkey and usually relies on these projects to bring about economic growth. Mega projects help keep the economic wheel of Turkey rolling. Erdogan already proved he isn't going anywhere as long as he has the support of the population through elections.
@@SALVATION650 These megaprojects are built on sand, quite literally. He's pumping only turkish currency into them, it's not much money coming from the outside. The only thing he does with that, is increasing the devaluation of the turkish currency. His habitus and language is nothing but a turkish Hitler at this point. For Hitler and his enablers it was the jews. For Erdolf it's the kurds... History's repeating everywhere you look.
You know when you are hiding how much you spent on your hobby from your significant other? The president of Turkey takes that to the next level with: "I can't tell you how much I spent, because if people knew it could disrupt the national economy."
50 times the size of the White House? Well, that's mad-man Erdogan for you. But I guess they had to top the Topkapi somehow, and that one was based on something built by the Caesars. Seems to me that most of it could be turned over to other Govt offices so that office space in town could be turned over to other uses.
@@frankthetank5708 Well, hopefully it won't just decay and fall apart. See the channel here called "Abandoned", that sort of thing happens a lot lately.
Actually really good idea. All the different machinery that had to be disassembled. Shipped via rail over the Ural Mountains. Then reassembled. As well as the workers that were moved with it
It’s not C41, it’s C4I (i as in Issac), which is an acronym for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence. (Literally four Cs and an I.)
@@megaprojects9649 And what about d and b? When boys esp. can't distinguish easily after years of learning to read? There wereno other alternatives? And speaking of alternatives, how about zero and the capital letter O?
@@gumbycat5226 Let's get one thing cleared up - I don't particularly care for the guy. However, he has a massive support base in Turkey which, whilst it may be low as of now, has kept him in power for nearly two decades with a sizeable majority. Also, are you of the opinion that the mainstream media in western countries is free of control? They are all, print or TV, owned by a small groups of self-intetested investors who have their own news agenda, parading under the pretence of freedom of speech and non-censorship. The internet is the only place where true freedom of opinion has a chance at surviving, and even those sources get buried to the bottom of news searches by Google, tweets contrary to accepted narratives get deleted by Twitter, and posts contrary to the narrative get deleted by Facebook. Reddit used to be the exception to the rule, but it seems like even they have bowed to the pressure put on them.
It does seem that way! Graniosity is crass, somewhat impressive, but most people react properly to it and that is to scorn it, assuming one's personal safety isn't threatened by the dictator in question.
A lot of them live with every day with fear for their lives and their families lives. "It has to be for something", so they try to balance that with this hysteria of power.
He's not a dictator FFS. Do you even know what that word means? Look it up. You may not like him but he has been elected by a majority vote in every election he has won.
@@TheWorldHasGoneNuts thousands of his opponants are in prison after the failed coup and tens of thousands are kick out of government jobs for their political alliance. collapsing economy and yet and he is lunching military attacks on other countries. no freedom of press or social media. sounds like a dictator to me. he won be elections alright, but does not make him less of a dictator. the moment you think your opinion is above the law, you are a dictator
This story of a Turkish palace where the majority of the rooms are unoccupied, reminds me of the "fairy-tale castle" of Louis II of Bavaria (with the unpronounceable name of "Neuschwanstein"). Counting 200 pieces but of which only 15 pieces are finished (the 15 pieces that the King of Bavaria visited during his rare site visits). It is this Bavarian castle served as a model to Disney for the castle of its parks
Breaking it up into a three pieces(worsds) might help with your pronounceation " Neu (New) " Schwan (🦢swan) " Stein (Rock)" ! Newswanrock would be its english name if it had one.
@@christianjunghanel6724 Thank you ! Germanic languages are not languages that I speak. I simply admit that I was totally incompetent in the matter (rather than giving proof of this incompetence by trying the impossible for me)
Ludwig II not Louis, although he was devoted fan of Louis XIV of France. There's a rather good BBC4 documentary about him by Dan Cruickshank, called "The Fairytale Castles of King Ludwig".
Im a huge fan boy of the british whistler, but i have to ask if theres any chance you could ever do a video on basilica, the gun built by a Hungarian for use by the ottomans against Constantinople? Dont have to.... but itd be nice.
Next video will be about another insane palace built for another strongman not far up north across the ocean of the Black Sea and it's for a man named Putin if you ask and also cost about $1 billion.
with the crumbling economy and sky high inflation, it’s a small consolation that the Turkish public can sleep and wake up to a proud feeling that Turkey has the largest presidential palace in the world, and that it belongs to the PEOPLE .
Maybe a vid on the other cold war era bunkers dotted around the UK? The "secret bunker" in Fife is one of my favourite tourist destinations. I go there for my birthday every year :)
Reminds me of dolmabache palace. While ottomans were starving the rulers built that palace and started the beginning of the end. Bankrupted the empire. Same here.
While you were a subject of British Empire , Sultan Abdul Hamid built a lot more then that and Sultans after him fought that Empire and others too. By the way, don't lie, no one at that time died of Hunger there and you don't proof for that while in India you did die of Hunger
Hey Simon, could you do a video on the Allseas 'Pioneering Spirit', the worlds largest construction vessel? It definitely is an absolute unit of a megaproject!
@@abhyudaysarkar5012 yesnt. Subsidies and tax evasion are a thing. But its only partially used for HQs of companies whereas a presidential palace is entirely funded by tax money.
It would be awesome if you did a vid on one of your multiple channels lol on the copper works in Swansea, white rock. It was massive and involved slave trade and also almost pure copper. And that's not mentioning the health hazards and life expectancy of the workers
I'm not ashamed to say that since Simon started Brain Blaze, Sideprojects, Megaprojects, etc... I haven't watched a single Today I Found Out. channels. Keep up the good work, Simon. These off-channels are some of your most quality content.
Inflation is rising by the day since his highness doesn't stop screwing up. Apparently they're up to 21% and it is rumoured that these aren't even the correct real numbers which might be somewhere closer to 30% even.
Erdo clearly sees himself as a dodgy reboot Ottoman emperor of his imagined Turkic empire reaching as far East as the Uighur concentration camps in W China, and thus he should live the lifestyle of an emperor ... with his deeply corrupt cronies. Where is a, say, 80 m statue (with outstretched arm) of such a humble megalomaniac? North Korea has two 20 m statues of the first two Kims.
It's unlikely Simon will be visiting Turkey anytime soon and if he does, he'll also unlikely ever return. Best stay home Simon and just keep posting 12 times daily, per usual.
Could you also do a video about yanukovich's residence? I think its quite interesting. He also wanted to build another one in crimea. So, please do it!
It's stuff like this that makes me feel slightly less bad about being a "wasteful american" (we're still bad, but not quite billion-dollar-mostly-empty-palace bad)
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It strikes me as being far from beautiful, dictatorial swagger architecture of that kind has a rather sinister edge, it is designed to overwhelm. In the end it will look rather stupid, like Ceaucescu's palace.
Stupid, this architecture is traditional Turkish architecture, also Turkey is a GREAT STATE, GREAT STATES HAVE GREAT BUILDINGS, SO. ?? IS IT TOO EXPENSIVE, YOU ARE MIXING US WITH GREECE, :) :) TÜRKİYE CONSTRUCTION The world is in the 1st place, what buildings are we building like this, go to Russia's new stadiums, Qatar's new stadiums, who has built it, we have numerous bridges, airport mega projects in the world, media about Turkey Stupid, this architecture is traditional Turkish architecture, also Turkey is a GREAT STATE, GREAT STATES HAVE GREAT BUILDINGS, SO. ?? IS IT TOO EXPENSIVE, YOU ARE MIXING US WITH GREECE, :) :) TÜRKİYE CONSTRUCTION The world is in the 1st place, what buildings are we building like this, go to Russia's new stadiums, Qatar's new stadiums, who has built it, we have numerous bridges, airport mega projects in the world, media about Turkey Do not deceive yourself with the lies you hear, come to Turkey and see it with your eyes, don't be a fool, 85 million, one of the strongest countries of NATO, industry, construction, agriculture, defense industry, our country has been with China for 10 years.big country.how can a country with a bad economy develop every year?? Enrichment in terms of industry, construction, agriculture, tourism, the lira is worthless, but the production is very.
Ataturk's presidential compound was made by Holzmeister, yes and so was the national assembly of the Turkish parliament, architecturally one of the most beautiful parliaments in the world. Holzmeister had good taste and Atatürk knew how to find people with good taste. Everything done by Holzmeister and ordered by Ataturk was modest, yet beautiful. Much different from Erdogan. Excellent video btw. Thanks and cheers!
This video got nearly everything wrong. The complex did not cost 1 billion dollars, but 1 billion liras. Roughly 500 million dollars at the time. 1000+ rooms are definitely not empty. There are hundreds of governmental people working there, including ministries and undersecreariats. The mosque is open to worship for all people, not only his family and supporters. The library has a digital infrastructure, meaning you can read every book at a click of a button, even if you are unable to touch historical books. There are hundreds of places in the library for you to study.
I understand that Turkish Contractors built Qatar's Airport. An equally or more awesome project. Remarkable construction like the Roman Empire is an identifier for this region of the world?
There are two kinds of people in this world. Ones who tour the Grand Palace and have their breath taken away by the Grandeur of the thing. Ones who tour the Grand Palace and see a leader trying really hard to compensate for something personal. I see huge Guvmental edifce, I think tiny wee-wee. Maybe it is not the rulers ruler that is small, but his Nations ego sure is in need of propping up. Museums, Churches and Opera Houses demand extravagance, Government residence, not so much.
Simon you could/should make a tie-in video on the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey to remove Erdoğan from power and try to reestablish Kemalist ideals (might be a fit for Into the Shadows or side projects?). It was quite a large attempt, involving sizable portions of the Gendamerie Command, parts of the I. and II. Armies, the Presidential Guard Regiment, several warships, 32 planes (24 of which were fighter jets), 37 helicopters, 74 tanks and 172 armored vehicles - in total including around 11k soldiers, 1214 of which were military academy students. Despite all the planning and materiel it failed so spectacularly that you barely hear about it anymore, despite having happened fairly recently.
It was not a Kemalist coup attempt, it was a coup attempt done by a traitor (a precious friend of erdogan himself xd) Fethullah Gülen's terrorist organization, who was a religious community leader. If it was a success, what will happen to Turkey was the exact opposite of the "Kemalist coup" 's establishments. But yes, Turkey should reconsider a Kemalist coup since it is going to be too late to recover from this disasterous economic/political policies driven by the recent government.
@@jeffersonott4357 Cynics in Western military circles think it failed because it wasn't a "real" coup but was instead a sort of false flag affair instigated by Erdogan or his supporters. It had dual objective of drawing out genuine conspirators and providing an "enabling event" that would enable Erdogan to drastically increase his control over Turkey and justify the imprisonment or disenfranchisement of any potential opposition. There were Turkish officers in Nato headquarters across Europe who suddenly found themselves to be marked men and ended up claiming asylum.
The Armenians are already filling up the internet with this genocide claim. Whenever there is a story or a news about Turkey, it's flooded by comments that are obviously made by the Armenian diaspora trolls, so I don't think many would be interested.
@@sebastiankindermann9327 "As of 2021, governments and parliaments of 33 countries have recognized the Armenian genocide." And most are politically oriented, trying to punish Turkey for something. Have your facts right, boy.
@@sebastiankindermann9327 No my friend... no. They don't. in fact not just majority but VAST majority doesn't recognized it. And even if they do it really doesn't matter what politicians do. Turkish claims aren't based on lies and so called "victim's" memories like Armenians but to the literal state reports, messages and documents from the era. There was no genocide. It's just Armenian coping mechanism for the fact that they started a civil war during a WORLD WAR to create greater Armenia, but ended being losing all their existing lands in Anatolia and then moving into countries like US or France and creating a huge Armenian diaspora of millions there, where they are lobbying ever since.
it is a mistake comparing ataturk's "palace" with erdoğan's palace.. ataturk's "palace" was tiny and very basic, even for its age, and this can be clearly seen in the photograph.. Many rich americans have bigger villas. Erdoğan's palace, by comparison, is huge..
"The Pinnacle of Inequality"? Heh. Look into the old Eastern Bloc (Romania for starters) and countries that followed it (Belarus, I think Turkmenistan etc.). And, of course, Best Korea(tm).
I'm not one to boost the US, but that literacy percentage (and I looked at your source) is misleading. National Center for Education Statistics say 21% of American adults are categorized as having "low level English literacy, with 4% being considered "functionally illiterate". That includes people whose primary language is not English (land of immigrants and all that.) If you are looking at literacy over-all which is just the ability to read and write at all, it is much higher. I went down a rabbit hole when I went to their site, so couldn't find a direct comparison of % literacy between Turkey and the US by the same criteria you start at, but everywhere else I look on the intertubes, shows both countries are in the high 90's in general literacy. Again, not saying the US education system isn't a shtshow, I went through it myself, and I think 50% of my country is filled with complete idiots (I'll leave you to guess which half). But when you quote literacy rates, most people who you are talking to assume pretty basic levels of being able to read and write. Not being able to do so at a US 6th grade level, i.e. being able to write a book report on the Great Gatsby in English.
Thank you!! Knew something was off the second he said it. Even though millions of immigrants basically refuse to become literate in English and that counts against our rates we're still in the upper 90s..
Well, thats what they tried and then Erdogan removed every enemy or those who could be from office or even imprisoned them. Lets see. He doesnt seem to be in good shape. He is getting old. Sooner or later nature will do its job and chaos will follow as the country will search die a new leader.
Millions of Turkish citizens had come , lived in Ankara for 4 years to 25 years at most and immediately migrate to Marmara or Aegean Regions, that is why apartments and villas' prices in Marmara and Aegean regions are 2 to 5 times more expensive than Ankara apartments or villas prices.
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4:00 - Chapter 1 - History
5:35 - Chapter 2 - Presidential compound
6:30 - Chapter 3 - C41 Bunker
7:20 - Chapter 4 - Bestepe millet mosque
8:25 - Chapter 5 - Presidential library
9:20 - Chapter 6 - Notable guests
10:55 - Chapter 7 - Controversy & criticism
Holly shit. Canada’s last government refused to spend $10,000,000 on renovating our prime minister’s residence.
Our current government is slowing renovating 24 Sussex Drive but it’s still a political hot potato and we frequently hear about cost overruns.
By comparison this guy is built a 1 Billion dollar estate for himself even though Turkey has less than half the gdp of Canada.
The poorer the country the more corruption...
My country doesn’t have residences for our ministers and presidents. We expect them to go home in the evening or stay in a hotel. There definitely would be a revolution if our politicians even contemplated building a monstrosity like Erdogan.
@@Philipp31415 which country are you speaking of?
@@sc1338 jk were a nation of snake oil salesman
That's why I moved to Canada from Turkey
“Living like a Saudi sheik at the expense of his nation.”
If history has taught us anything, any ruler who did just that eventually got violently overthrown. I hope Erdogan soon learns this the hard way.
I mean the military tried to overthrow him a few years ago - it failed so miserably that you barely hear about it anymore. Look up the 2016 Coup d'état. Sizeable portions of the I. and II. Armies (Turkey has 4), parts of the Gendamerie (Military Police) Command and the Presidential Guard Regiment couped in an attempt to try and reestablish Atatürk's Kemalist ideals. They had several warships, 35 planes (24 of which were fighter jets), 74 tanks, 172 armored vehicles and 37 helicopters along with around 11 thousand soldiers. They failed - spectacularly.
Erdogan did much for Turkey and usually relies on these projects to bring about economic growth. Mega projects help keep the economic wheel of Turkey rolling. Erdogan already proved he isn't going anywhere as long as he has the support of the population through elections.
@@SALVATION650 he has 38% approval rating as of now I believe
@@SALVATION650 You sound like an Erdogan mouthpiece...
@@SALVATION650 These megaprojects are built on sand, quite literally. He's pumping only turkish currency into them, it's not much money coming from the outside. The only thing he does with that, is increasing the devaluation of the turkish currency. His habitus and language is nothing but a turkish Hitler at this point. For Hitler and his enablers it was the jews. For Erdolf it's the kurds... History's repeating everywhere you look.
You know when you are hiding how much you spent on your hobby from your significant other?
The president of Turkey takes that to the next level with: "I can't tell you how much I spent, because if people knew it could disrupt the national economy."
And who said that? This liar here???
He doesnt spends the companies are spending
50 times the size of the White House? Well, that's mad-man Erdogan for you.
But I guess they had to top the Topkapi somehow, and that one was based on something built by the Caesars.
Seems to me that most of it could be turned over to other Govt offices so that office space in town could be turned over to other uses.
Just look at Bucharest.
Buildings of this size mostly doesn't found a proper use.
It will end up as a museum probably.
@@frankthetank5708 Well, hopefully it won't just decay and fall apart.
See the channel here called "Abandoned", that sort of thing happens a lot lately.
topkapı was built in 1460 in ottoman era. caesars?
@@frankthetank5708 Turkey has a University Student housing problem. Opposition has promised to turn this palace into a dormitory.
Atleast it wasn't built by slaves as the white house was
Perhaps you could do one about the Soviet effort to move 1500 war factories during WW2. It was a true Megaproject!
what's the relevance to the OP's video?
@@acosorimaxconto5610 it's a channel on mega projects
Actually really good idea. All the different machinery that had to be disassembled. Shipped via rail over the Ural Mountains. Then reassembled. As well as the workers that were moved with it
It’s not C41, it’s C4I (i as in Issac), which is an acronym for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence. (Literally four Cs and an I.)
I maintain that the number 1, letter i, capital I and L are the biggest piece of shit letters.
Seriously, who thought that was a good idea?
@@megaprojects9649 1Illustrated
@@megaprojects9649 lmao
@@megaprojects9649 And what about d and b? When boys esp. can't distinguish easily after years of learning to read? There wereno other alternatives? And speaking of alternatives, how about zero and the capital letter O?
@@megaprojects9649 the guy who invented the sans-serif type of font :)
Memories of Ceausescu's end, along with his mortifying wife, still remain fresh.
Really! You think Erdoğan and Turkey are at the same level as Ceausescu and Romania under the Communist Bloc before the fall of communism. Brilliant.
@@TheWorldHasGoneNuts not quite but they are getting there. He has undermined all state institutions and the press.
@@gumbycat5226 Let's get one thing cleared up - I don't particularly care for the guy. However, he has a massive support base in Turkey which, whilst it may be low as of now, has kept him in power for nearly two decades with a sizeable majority. Also, are you of the opinion that the mainstream media in western countries is free of control? They are all, print or TV, owned by a small groups of self-intetested investors who have their own news agenda, parading under the pretence of freedom of speech and non-censorship. The internet is the only place where true freedom of opinion has a chance at surviving, and even those sources get buried to the bottom of news searches by Google, tweets contrary to accepted narratives get deleted by Twitter, and posts contrary to the narrative get deleted by Facebook. Reddit used to be the exception to the rule, but it seems like even they have bowed to the pressure put on them.
But those are Romanians.
That’s was my first thought exactly.
I really can’t stand to see when one person gets to use the resources of an entire nation for his own personal use….makes me sick.
Sounds like what #45 would have done if he could have tbh.
It's Erdogan who's sick: he's criminally insane!
The more obese the leader, the more those beneath him starve
@@promethbastard trump refused pay when he was serving?
i agree Anthony
Why do dictators always feel like they need to compensate for something. Everything has to be giant size with them.
It does seem that way! Graniosity is crass, somewhat impressive, but most people react properly to it and that is to scorn it, assuming one's personal safety isn't threatened by the dictator in question.
A lot of them live with every day with fear for their lives and their families lives. "It has to be for something", so they try to balance that with this hysteria of power.
He's not a dictator FFS. Do you even know what that word means? Look it up. You may not like him but he has been elected by a majority vote in every election he has won.
@@TheWorldHasGoneNuts If you jail the competition you win by default.
@@TheWorldHasGoneNuts thousands of his opponants are in prison after the failed coup and tens of thousands are kick out of government jobs for their political alliance. collapsing economy and yet and he is lunching military attacks on other countries. no freedom of press or social media. sounds like a dictator to me.
he won be elections alright, but does not make him less of a dictator.
the moment you think your opinion is above the law, you are a dictator
I gotta see a video on the yellow fleet. Whether it's a mega project or a side project it would be fantastic
He actually has a video about the yellow fleet on another channel called Brain Blaze I believe.
Before asking about a video from Simon, search "Simon Whistler [Video Topic]" 👍🏻
@@captainchimp yes. A year ago
This story of a Turkish palace where the majority of the rooms are unoccupied, reminds me of the "fairy-tale castle" of Louis II of Bavaria (with the unpronounceable name of "Neuschwanstein"). Counting 200 pieces but of which only 15 pieces are finished (the 15 pieces that the King of Bavaria visited during his rare site visits).
It is this Bavarian castle served as a model to Disney for the castle of its parks
Breaking it up into a three pieces(worsds) might help with your pronounceation " Neu (New) " Schwan (🦢swan) " Stein (Rock)" ! Newswanrock would be its english name if it had one.
@@christianjunghanel6724 Thank you !
Germanic languages are not languages that I speak.
I simply admit that I was totally incompetent in the matter (rather than giving proof of this incompetence by trying the impossible for me)
@@peronik349 That ok 👌
Ludwig II not Louis, although he was devoted fan of Louis XIV of France.
There's a rather good BBC4 documentary about him by Dan Cruickshank, called "The Fairytale Castles of King Ludwig".
@@peronik349
You're writing in English?
A Germanic language.
Or let you translate your words?
Looks like something I'd build in The Sims 4, if 200x200 lots were possible.
Ataturk would be a good person to talk about on Simon's Bio channel.
I agree.
The presidential compound looks like a cross between a US McMansion and a college campus in the southwest US.
Cough...
Student debt...
Also a chinese/asian temple, I think.
Any President who displays megalomaniac behaviour like living in a huge, expensive and thoroughly oversized mansion is troublesome for a country.
..He also beautified the Country.
Great People, great Country, great President and a great Palace. Anything else would not be enough for New Turkey.
Come again?
@@TR-RUclips-Channel Because of Erdogan, now you need and new currency
Im a huge fan boy of the british whistler, but i have to ask if theres any chance you could ever do a video on basilica, the gun built by a Hungarian for use by the ottomans against Constantinople? Dont have to.... but itd be nice.
I would watch it 100
@@mackwilliams7793 I
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And then ottomans conquered Hungaria. Nice haha
If he's building himself a Palace like this then you know it's not a democracy anymore. Simple as.
That's been clear for several years now.
I heard rumors that he has several presidential female goats in a secret wing in that Palace. Is it true?
That is for Turkey's nation. This narrative in video is pure BS. Just verbal D to make money via YT.
@@falxgod6848 He has also male goats. 😉
@@Gentleman...Driver top kek xD
He's not brazen or patriotic, he's a demagogue
Looks like an American commercial building, housing one of those giant tech companies.
As long they pay it not from taxes.... (ok, they practical pay no taxes so yeah...)
Next video will be about another insane palace built for another strongman not far up north across the ocean of the Black Sea and it's for a man named Putin if you ask and also cost about $1 billion.
Or better yet Ceausescu's Palace of the People
I think he's already done that one.
@@alexv3357 He's done that one too.
This is the room that I use every time I'm thinking about what I want to eat next Thursday.
with the crumbling economy and sky high inflation, it’s a small consolation that the Turkish public can sleep and wake up to a proud feeling that Turkey has the largest presidential palace in the world, and that it belongs to the PEOPLE .
You say that because you see the palace and the inflation..But you don't know what the government has done for its people and the country.
This was built 10 years ago you hillbilly the economy has been bad for just 3 years
This whole compound looks like a place the last mission of a Just Cause or Ghost Recon game would take you...
Maybe a vid on the other cold war era bunkers dotted around the UK?
The "secret bunker" in Fife is one of my favourite tourist destinations.
I go there for my birthday every year :)
Can’t wait for another video! The Red River floodway would be a great mega project, largest earth moving project since the Panama Canal
It looks like one of those self-contained "destination" hotels in the Caribbean.
These 'presidents' seem a lot like the Kings of old. No one needs such a big house. Megalomania.
Reminds me of dolmabache palace. While ottomans were starving the rulers built that palace and started the beginning of the end. Bankrupted the empire. Same here.
While you were a subject of British Empire , Sultan Abdul Hamid built a lot more then that and Sultans after him fought that Empire and others too. By the way, don't lie, no one at that time died of Hunger there and you don't proof for that while in India you did die of Hunger
"Living like a Saudi sheik, at the cost of his nation" - the second part seems redundant, no?
Yeah, but it never hurts to clarify these matters. Some of the people watching might not know what effects Saudi sheiks have.
All the gas you can guzzle for 25¢/gal. if you delete this h4ram
Would of thought that Buckingham Palace was the pinnacle of inequality.
Very edgy.
Hey Simon, could you do a video on the Allseas 'Pioneering Spirit', the worlds largest construction vessel? It definitely is an absolute unit of a megaproject!
Sure :). I'll look into it!
"It's an impressive construction..." No. It looks like the headquarters of a characterless mid-sized US corporation.
Only difference is that corporation did not use public money I.e. taxpayer dollars to build it.
@@abhyudaysarkar5012 yesnt. Subsidies and tax evasion are a thing. But its only partially used for HQs of companies whereas a presidential palace is entirely funded by tax money.
Every dictator needs a palace, it's a given right...
Well, a taken right.
@@Bustermachine isn't that what the west always says, Americans I mean, if you want something, go for it, he just did that, nothing extra...
We have the same sort of problem in the UK! Our present PM's wife chose very expensive wallpaper for their flat, naughty, naughty lol
9:55 "...firm handshakes, broad grins, and promises..." Well, two of the three, anyway.
Hopefully this becomes a government office complex like the other "presidential palaces" have over the years.
It is a government building and not owned by Erdogan.
It will serve every future President.
@@Doan84 I think you misunderstood. I'm hoping that it becomes a government OFFICE, not a residence.
So basically, this guy built a whole little world for just him and his family.
Yes, we can clearly say that and the fund, for the construction, comes from the people of Turkey who have been sucked to the death since 2002.
Not sure what is the motivation behind this. The structure is a symbolic expression of a mighty nation and the people.
Wait!!!! America's literacy rate is less than 80% seriously???
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Don't know where Simon got the 99%)
Could this video be the start to a new channel? Mega Government Spending Disasters? I have a laundry list if needed...!
It would be awesome if you did a vid on one of your multiple channels lol on the copper works in Swansea, white rock. It was massive and involved slave trade and also almost pure copper. And that's not mentioning the health hazards and life expectancy of the workers
I hate that YT got rid of the dislikes, I’d love to laugh at the amount of Erdogan supporters disliking this
I think there are plugins for that, check your browser options to find where to get plugins.
There's a plugin called return youtube dislikes, brings ALL the dislikes back
there are 55 dislikes atm
People who like your comment is technically count as a dislike.
Wait... You think Erdogan has supporters?
I'm not ashamed to say that since Simon started Brain Blaze, Sideprojects, Megaprojects, etc... I haven't watched a single Today I Found Out. channels. Keep up the good work, Simon. These off-channels are some of your most quality content.
I feel the same way about Top Tenz
Inflation is rising by the day since his highness doesn't stop screwing up. Apparently they're up to 21% and it is rumoured that these aren't even the correct real numbers which might be somewhere closer to 30% even.
Inflation in basic human needs, food, rent, utilities is more than 50%
@@ta5k1n Sorry to hear that, i really hope things get back in line. I cannot imagine what the people have to go through right now.
@@ta5k1n according to which report that we can verify?
So is Turkey becoming Wadiya? Because that house do feel like that one that Aladeen lives in.
it is a very aladeen palace
Erdo clearly sees himself as a dodgy reboot Ottoman emperor of his imagined Turkic empire reaching as far East as the Uighur concentration camps in W China, and thus he should live the lifestyle of an emperor ... with his deeply corrupt cronies.
Where is a, say, 80 m statue (with outstretched arm) of such a humble megalomaniac? North Korea has two 20 m statues of the first two Kims.
Why does the Bestepe millet mosque look like if Disney tried to build it's own Magic Kingdom imitation of the Hagia Sophia?
I just ordered the Beard Blaze sampler pack yesterday. Looking forward to try them out.
Hellooooo from 10km near that Presidential House
Your close enough...you should rebel against them
@@tommycolton4971 nah.. he is losing political power. Probably will lose next election. His party already lost mayor elections.
@@tommycolton4971 Moreover he may be tiran, but he came with democracy so he should go with same way
It's unlikely Simon will be visiting Turkey anytime soon and if he does, he'll also unlikely ever return. Best stay home Simon and just keep posting 12 times daily, per usual.
With the rate he is going at he will soon be confined to his basement... making more content for us! :P
Sounds like your typical tyrant.
cuz he is
Could you also do a video about yanukovich's residence? I think its quite interesting. He also wanted to build another one in crimea. So, please do it!
It's stuff like this that makes me feel slightly less bad about being a "wasteful american" (we're still bad, but not quite billion-dollar-mostly-empty-palace bad)
you lot left $1 billion behind when you run away from Afghanistan
@@essexginge9167 try as much as $85B. No estimate is as low as $1B
And Simon has just added to the list of countries he probably should not visit!
...hah, hah. You made me smile. Thanks
SUGGESTION: Ilyushin IL-2
- The single most produced military aircraft in aviation history
- Visionary WWII ground-attack "flying tank" and spiritual predecessor to the A-10 Warthog
- Some WWII German nicknames for it: "meat grinder", "butcher", "black death", "slaughterer", "concrete bird"
- What Stalin had to say about it: "Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats."
Wow that library is beautiful
On SideProjects, can you do the YF-23 vs the YF-22.
It was a competition that made the Air Force what it is today.
Beard oil don't need anymore. But damn you Simon you expanded. Now I must go by your wares!
Should you consider a video about the Palace of the People in Bucharest, Romania that would be... Comparable to say the least.
He did it way back, on Biographics. Before this channel had been created
Palace of the Parliament? He did it. On his Geographics channel a year ago
I stand corrected, thanks for the info
@@mcbraynor you're very welcome
The distinct lack of comments on the specific topic is sad.
It strikes me as being far from beautiful, dictatorial swagger architecture of that kind has a rather sinister edge, it is designed to overwhelm. In the end it will look rather stupid, like Ceaucescu's palace.
Stupid, this architecture is traditional Turkish architecture, also Turkey is a GREAT STATE, GREAT STATES HAVE GREAT BUILDINGS, SO. ?? IS IT TOO EXPENSIVE, YOU ARE MIXING US WITH GREECE, :) :) TÜRKİYE CONSTRUCTION The world is in the 1st place, what buildings are we building like this, go to Russia's new stadiums, Qatar's new stadiums, who has built it, we have numerous bridges, airport mega projects in the world, media about Turkey Stupid, this architecture is traditional Turkish architecture, also Turkey is a GREAT STATE, GREAT STATES HAVE GREAT BUILDINGS, SO. ?? IS IT TOO EXPENSIVE, YOU ARE MIXING US WITH GREECE, :) :) TÜRKİYE CONSTRUCTION The world is in the 1st place, what buildings are we building like this, go to Russia's new stadiums, Qatar's new stadiums, who has built it, we have numerous bridges, airport mega projects in the world, media about Turkey Do not deceive yourself with the lies you hear, come to Turkey and see it with your eyes, don't be a fool, 85 million, one of the strongest countries of NATO, industry, construction, agriculture, defense industry, our country has been with China for 10 years.big country.how can a country with a bad economy develop every year?? Enrichment in terms of industry, construction, agriculture, tourism, the lira is worthless, but the production is very.
Ataturk's presidential compound was made by Holzmeister, yes and so was the national assembly of the Turkish parliament, architecturally one of the most beautiful parliaments in the world. Holzmeister had good taste and Atatürk knew how to find people with good taste. Everything done by Holzmeister and ordered by Ataturk was modest, yet beautiful. Much different from Erdogan. Excellent video btw. Thanks and cheers!
King in castle, king in a castle.. I have a chair. Don't underestimate Borat. He was a prophet
A house fit for a Ottoman Sultan.
Another corrupt dictator.🙄
God those buildings are absolutely ugly
This video got nearly everything wrong. The complex did not cost 1 billion dollars, but 1 billion liras. Roughly 500 million dollars at the time.
1000+ rooms are definitely not empty. There are hundreds of governmental people working there, including ministries and undersecreariats.
The mosque is open to worship for all people, not only his family and supporters.
The library has a digital infrastructure, meaning you can read every book at a click of a button, even if you are unable to touch historical books. There are hundreds of places in the library for you to study.
Kaynakları: Pensilvanya
Hey Simon, could you please do Bagger 288/293 and or Bingham Canyon copper mine!
I understand that Turkish Contractors built Qatar's Airport. An equally or more awesome project. Remarkable construction like the Roman Empire is an identifier for this region of the world?
Looks like a college campus-
Looks kinda like a Miami strip mall
There are two kinds of people in this world.
Ones who tour the Grand Palace and have their breath taken away by the Grandeur of the thing.
Ones who tour the Grand Palace and see a leader trying really hard to compensate for something personal.
I see huge Guvmental edifce, I think tiny wee-wee.
Maybe it is not the rulers ruler that is small, but his Nations ego sure is in need of propping up.
Museums, Churches and Opera Houses demand extravagance, Government residence, not so much.
I wouldn't mind living in a compound like that!
Nothing wrong with building a government building but at least make it unique.
The resemblance to Versailles is uncanny. Expect the political/historical consequences will be similar, too.
btw i couldnt help but notice that "allegedly" seems to be one of your favourite words ^_^°
Randomly made it 2 minutes after release!
Simon you could/should make a tie-in video on the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey to remove Erdoğan from power and try to reestablish Kemalist ideals (might be a fit for Into the Shadows or side projects?). It was quite a large attempt, involving sizable portions of the Gendamerie Command, parts of the I. and II. Armies, the Presidential Guard Regiment, several warships, 32 planes (24 of which were fighter jets), 37 helicopters, 74 tanks and 172 armored vehicles - in total including around 11k soldiers, 1214 of which were military academy students. Despite all the planning and materiel it failed so spectacularly that you barely hear about it anymore, despite having happened fairly recently.
That’s a great idea. Why did it fail?
There is a VisualPolitik video about that: ruclips.net/video/GDvjHg_TogY/видео.html
It was not a Kemalist coup attempt, it was a coup attempt done by a traitor (a precious friend of erdogan himself xd) Fethullah Gülen's terrorist organization, who was a religious community leader. If it was a success, what will happen to Turkey was the exact opposite of the "Kemalist coup" 's establishments. But yes, Turkey should reconsider a Kemalist coup since it is going to be too late to recover from this disasterous economic/political policies driven by the recent government.
Umm the wrong part is it was not Kemalist. It was done by a close friend of erdogan. So they weren't Kemalist, they were Islamist.
@@jeffersonott4357 Cynics in Western military circles think it failed because it wasn't a "real" coup but was instead a sort of false flag affair instigated by Erdogan or his supporters. It had dual objective of drawing out genuine conspirators and providing an "enabling event" that would enable Erdogan to drastically increase his control over Turkey and justify the imprisonment or disenfranchisement of any potential opposition.
There were Turkish officers in Nato headquarters across Europe who suddenly found themselves to be marked men and ended up claiming asylum.
If you’re Going to defraud your countries people by making a giant pleasure Palace, you could at least make sure it’s architecturally cohesive
Some interesting arguments.
Has Simon done the white house and Buckingham palace? He should if he hasn't.
He did the White House on Geographics a year ago. Same time and channel for Buckingham Palace
I get a terrible spinal pain every time Simon says "Erdigan".
Coruscant called, they want their buildings back.
This needs to be followed up by an Into The Shadows about the Armenian Genocide.
The Armenians are already filling up the internet with this genocide claim. Whenever there is a story or a news about Turkey, it's flooded by comments that are obviously made by the Armenian diaspora trolls, so I don't think many would be interested.
@@direnius wtf are you talking about?? Every single coumtry except Turkey acknowledged the Armenian Genocide!
@@sebastiankindermann9327 "As of 2021, governments and parliaments of 33 countries have recognized the Armenian genocide." And most are politically oriented, trying to punish Turkey for something. Have your facts right, boy.
@@sebastiankindermann9327 No my friend... no. They don't. in fact not just majority but VAST majority doesn't recognized it. And even if they do it really doesn't matter what politicians do.
Turkish claims aren't based on lies and so called "victim's" memories like Armenians but to the literal state reports, messages and documents from the era. There was no genocide.
It's just Armenian coping mechanism for the fact that they started a civil war during a WORLD WAR to create greater Armenia, but ended being losing all their existing lands in Anatolia and then moving into countries like US or France and creating a huge Armenian diaspora of millions there, where they are lobbying ever since.
Well. Now I know where my money went exactly. Nice
it is a mistake comparing ataturk's "palace" with erdoğan's palace.. ataturk's "palace" was tiny and very basic, even for its age, and this can be clearly seen in the photograph.. Many rich americans have bigger villas. Erdoğan's palace, by comparison, is huge..
Ataturk lived in Dolmabahce and had various mansions and villas
"The Pinnacle of Inequality"? Heh. Look into the old Eastern Bloc (Romania for starters) and countries that followed it (Belarus, I think Turkmenistan etc.). And, of course, Best Korea(tm).
Like Ceausescu's "People's Palace". And we all saw what happened to him...
It’s not wonderful, it’s ugly!
I'm not one to boost the US, but that literacy percentage (and I looked at your source) is misleading. National Center for Education Statistics say 21% of American adults are categorized as having "low level English literacy, with 4% being considered "functionally illiterate". That includes people whose primary language is not English (land of immigrants and all that.) If you are looking at literacy over-all which is just the ability to read and write at all, it is much higher. I went down a rabbit hole when I went to their site, so couldn't find a direct comparison of % literacy between Turkey and the US by the same criteria you start at, but everywhere else I look on the intertubes, shows both countries are in the high 90's in general literacy.
Again, not saying the US education system isn't a shtshow, I went through it myself, and I think 50% of my country is filled with complete idiots (I'll leave you to guess which half). But when you quote literacy rates, most people who you are talking to assume pretty basic levels of being able to read and write. Not being able to do so at a US 6th grade level, i.e. being able to write a book report on the Great Gatsby in English.
Thank you!! Knew something was off the second he said it. Even though millions of immigrants basically refuse to become literate in English and that counts against our rates we're still in the upper 90s..
“No one man should’ve all this power”
can you please make a video about the second Soviet five year plan? I am craving it!
Remember what happened to Louie at Versailles. Just give it time.
Well, thats what they tried and then Erdogan removed every enemy or those who could be from office or even imprisoned them.
Lets see. He doesnt seem to be in good shape. He is getting old. Sooner or later nature will do its job and chaos will follow as the country will search die a new leader.
When the leaders of a state stop serving their populace, it's the populace responsibility to remove their leaders.
Millions of Turkish citizens had come , lived in Ankara for 4 years to 25 years at most and immediately migrate to Marmara or Aegean Regions, that is why apartments and villas' prices in Marmara and Aegean regions are 2 to 5 times more expensive than Ankara apartments or villas prices.
I mean, if he really wants to take his country back into the 20th century, he can go right ahead and bring back the Ottoman Empire.
Not yet another 15 years and we are ready
All those rooms are to hold the country’s supply of ümläüts….
It belongs to everyone... to everyone to pay for.
Ah man the crimes against humanity I'd commit to live there...