The cost of the air fleet of the Prime Ministry of Turkey has been declared to be 7 million dollars. Luxury is indispensable for the officials of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
The Prime Ministry has declared to possess 11 airplanes and 3 helicopters.
The 2016 flight record of the airplanes assigned for the president, president of the national assembly, prime minister, deputy prime ministers and ministers is around 2 thousand hours, while that of the helicopters amount up to 5 hundred hours. The cost of the fleet, which realised 2575 hours of flight, is around 7 million dollars.
The statistics indicate that the high state officials were in-flight during almost one-third of the year in 2016, with a record of 106 days.
LUXURY INDISPENSABLE FOR AKP GOVERNMENT
The Presidential Complex (Aksaray) that was built in Ankara for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2014 had cost a fortune, between $600M to $1B, according to different sources. Turkish Presidency officially has recently announced its investment program for 2017, which will cost $92M, and around one-third of it will be spent for the presidential buildings in Ankara. President Erdoğan had stated that the expenditures showed the power of the Turkish State to the World.
Another sumptuous spending was that of Mehmet Görmez, the head of the Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) of Turkey. An armoured Mercedes S500, which costs $324K, was bought by taxpayers’ money for Görmez in 2014.
