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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Wed Nov 12, 2014, 08:36 PM Nov 2014

Pope Francis asked to avoid Turkey’s lavish 1,000-room presidential palace [View all]

Josephine McKenna

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis’ penchant for austerity and humility will face a diplomatic challenge when he visits Turkey’s new ostentatious presidential palace on his first visit to the country later this month.

Francis will be the first foreign dignitary to be welcomed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the new 1,000-room palace when he visits Ankara on Nov. 28.

Turkish architects have written to the pope urging him not to go to the palace built by Erdogan and known locally as the “White Palace.”

http://www.religionnews.com/2014/11/12/pope-francis-asked-avoid-turkeys-lavish-1000-room-presidential-palace/

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Pope Francis asked to avoid Turkey’s lavish 1,000-room presidential palace [View all] hrmjustin Nov 2014 OP

As compared to the Vatican? eom Cleita Nov 2014 #1

He doesn't live in the palace. he lives in a small apartment. hrmjustin Nov 2014 #2

Thank you. I feel bad because it does put him in a quandry. CurtEastPoint Nov 2014 #3

Yes it does seem out of place for him. hrmjustin Nov 2014 #4

I know that, but he's not condemning the Vatican as ostentatious which Cleita Nov 2014 #5

The Vatican belongs to the Church and consequently to the world. CurtEastPoint Nov 2014 #6

Don't get me wrong. I think the Turkish palace is plain wrong and in the Cleita Nov 2014 #7

What goes on in all those rooms? Are they offices, bedrooms, bathrooms, No Vested Interest Nov 2014 #8

Nefarious things. rug Nov 2014 #9

I'm sure you're correct re activities there. Perhaps the Turks No Vested Interest Nov 2014 #10

Surely, with that budget, okasha Nov 2014 #12

And he destroyed a forested park bequeathed by Attaturk to a secular Turkey. Leontius Nov 2014 #14

He's has a planned 250 room addition as a personal presidential residence. Leontius Nov 2014 #13

No one needs 250 rooms. What will they be- No Vested Interest Nov 2014 #15

There are a lot of lavish governmental palaces goldent Nov 2014 #11