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Turkey's Tourism Minister, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, invited a columnist to accompany him on vacation in Greece.
Journalist Ahmet Hakan Coskun wrote about his stay in Greece on June 21 in an article published by the pro-government daily Hurriyet.
Coskun recounted how he was talking to Ersoy when the minister suggested: "Let's go to Athens together. I'll sail on a yacht from Piraeus to the Aegean Sea."
The next morning, the pair flew to Athens and continued their journey to Ersoy's superyacht, which was docked in the Port of Piraeus at the D-Marin Zea "megayacht" marina.
The 50-meter-long superyacht is owned by the minister's company, Voyage Turizm Otelcilik. The yacht is considered one of the largest and fastest ships of its kind in the world.
The ship has five cabins for 10 guests. It has a crew of nine and burns 600-700 liters of diesel per hour. If it were to be rented out, a week would cost 120,000 euros.
How was it possible that Turkey's tourism minister was spending his vacation in Greece was the question posed to Ersoy, who said "a tourism minister should check on rivals. I vacation like a normal tourist in all our rival countries anyway. I vacationed in Italy, Spain."
"I was in Dubai for my last vacation. My perspective has changed. The free zone, tourism, trade... They manage all of this together," he added.
According to Ersoy, Athens, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome and Paris are alternative destinations to Turkey's Istanbul and Izmir, while Mallorca is an alternative to Turkey's Antalya and the Greek islands are an alternative to Turkey's Aegean coast.
Ersoy stated that he pays his own vacation bills and that there are no expenses from the public coffers.
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