Şahan Gökbakar's 'space ticket' calculation involving a dinosaur park

Comments and criticisms regarding the journey of the first Turkish astronaut, Alper Gezeravcı, and the 55 million dollar ticket price for this mission continue to be voiced loudly. Şahan Gökbakar has also joined this debate.

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Şahan Gökbakar's 'space ticket' calculation involving a dinosaur park

Actor and comedian Şahan Gökbakar showed that he could not remain indifferent to the comments regarding the ticket price of the space journey that has been occupying Turkey's agenda, through a post on his social media account.

Approaching the calculations made over the 55 million dollar travel fee from a different perspective, Gökbakar recalled the Dinosaur Theme Park, on which the then-Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Gökçek spent 780 million dollars.

Stating that we could have reached a much more advanced level in space investments with the money spent on this park, Şahan Gökbakar said that almost no one asked for an account of the money spent there.

Gökbakar made the following post:

"55 million dollars was found to be too much to send an astronaut to space... Everyone talked about it. When 780 million dollars was spent on a non-functioning dinosaur theme park in Ankara, no one talked this much.

Look, Japan landed on the moon for 108 million dollars, we only sent an astronaut.

My brother, the money to land on the moon 7 times, the money to send 15 astronauts was invested in a dinosaur theme park and you didn't say a peep, what are you talking about?"

News Source: 12punto