In accordance with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's "New Turkey" concept, it was envisaged that the Çankaya Presidential Mansion would become the prime ministerial compound and the president would move to the newly-built palace. Turkey's new presidential palace in the capital, Ankara, has an official price tag of $615 million and more than 1,000 rooms.

Turkey's new presidential palace in the capital, Ankara, has an official price tag of $615 million and more than 1,000 rooms. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ak Saray, or the White Palace… Known officially as the Presidential Palace but dubbed universally as the Aksaray (White Palace), the complex has 1,000 rooms and draws its architectural inspiration from Turkey's Ottoman and Seljuk heritage. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has invited Turkey’s government to put together a defence after the Chamber of Architects in the Turkish capital submitted an application related to the construction of the 1,150-room presidential palace, Turkish newspaper Sözcü reported on Tuesday. Dolmabahçe Palace located in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the European coast of the Strait of Istanbul, served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1856 to 1887 and from 1909 to 1922. A controversial new 1,000-room palace built for Turkey's President Erdogan will cost about £385m ($615m) - nearly twice the previous estimate. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan unveiled the new presidential palace on Wednesday, a sprawling and ornate complex that reportedly cost over $350 million to build. President Erdogan, the president of Turkey (the country, not your dad on Thanksgiving), unveiled his new presidential palace and it has 1,000 rooms. Zero. If each room is 20 meters, then it means he is building himself a residence with 250 rooms."

Called Ak Saray, or the White Palace, the new 1,000-room-building near Ankara is drawing harsh criticism from opposition groups who suggest that spending hundreds of millions of dollars building a palace is not a sound use …

The immense project has been built at a reported cost of … Imagine the interior decorator who scores that job? Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan unveiled the new presidential palace on Wednesday, a sprawling and ornate complex that reportedly cost over $350 million to build. Cankaya has been the seat of the Turkish president since the modern republic's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became president and for many has been a symbol of Turkey's modern history as a progressive secular state.

Called Ak Saray, or the White Palace, the new 1,000-room-building near Ankara is drawing harsh criticism from opposition groups who suggest that spending hundreds of millions of dollars building a palace is not a sound use … The Presidential Complex is the presidential residence of the Republic of Turkey. Zero.

Speaking to NTV’s Oğuz Haksever during a live broadcast from the presidential palace on […] The palace will become the new home of the Turkish presidency, marking an historic break with the Cankaya presidential palace in downtown Ankara.