The new 1,000 room palace built by Turkish President Erdoğan has been attracting a lot of attention in Turkey these days and John Oliver has done a segment on it too.
I can't work out how to embed the video but it can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/...
The palace, which was designed by Erdoğan, cost more than $615,000,000 and is much, much bigger than the White House in Washington and is even bigger than the Kremlin in Moscow and the Palace of Versailles near Paris.
Many people in Turkey are enraged that so much was spent on a palace of this size when there were already adequate official residences for the prime minister and president. It's having been built on one of the few green spaces in Ankara has also caused a great deal of controversy.
More can be read about it at these links:
http://www.bbc.com/...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...
http://www.bloomberg.com/...
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/...
Erdoğan has also been getting heat for the new $185,000,000 Airbus A330 that was recently delivered for the use of the Turkish president.
http://www.todayszaman.com/...