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Accompanied by spear-carrying warriors and guards in chainmail and golden helmets, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomed Abbas to the new presidential palace - the Ak Saray.
The scene of the historical costume drama included 16 warriors each representing one of the 16 empires of Turkish history from the Hunnic Empire, founded around 200 BC, to the Ottoman Empire which was dissolved in 1920.
Social media, however, was quick to point to Erdogan's imperial ambitions depicted in the mascarade.
“It seems that turkish president @RT_Erdogan thinks he's a #sultan,” user @ddurejko said in a tweet.
The staged ceremony was conducted at Ak Saray, the controversial presidential palace on the outskirts of Ankara that was opened at the end of October. Inspired by Seljuk architecture, it has 1,150 rooms and was built at a cost of around €490 million.
The palace houses state-of-the-art communications systems and has bunkers able to withstand biological, nuclear and chemical weapons attacks, according to local media.
The presidential quarters are also defended from spies with additional anti-bug measures and security against wiretapping.
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Erdogan is trying to bring Ottoman empire starting with the war in Syria, and meanwhile he wants to join the EU..... I feel bad for Abbas, how embarrassing for him...
Turkey’s EU membership would ease today’s cultural clash in Europe: PM - POLITICS