Erdogan's palatial stimulus package
December 3, 2014 2:00AM ET
by David Lepeska @dlepeska
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has of late been ridiculed in the international press for arguing that Muslims discovered America and that women and men should never be seen as equal.
But his claims may have been less a declaration of his beliefs than an attempt to divert attention from the criticism over his new residence: a lavish, 1,000-room presidential palace four times the size of Versailles.
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