The Trend Garden Residence, an upscale serviced apartment building in the Turkish city of Malatya, boasted a gym, freshly-furnished rooms and a roof-top cafeteria.
Annual inflation is around its highest level in decades, devaluing salaries and devouring savings less than a year before President Recep Tayyip Erdogan runs for re-election.
The anti-hijab protests in Iran are in full swing and now even non-Iranian icons are resorting to symbolic gestures to support the cause. The latest example comes from Turkey where singer Melek Mosso cut off her hair on stage in solidarity with the Iranian women.