{"id":223147,"date":"2022-07-26T11:17:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T16:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=223147"},"modified":"2022-07-26T17:49:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T22:49:39","slug":"northern-cyprus-lottery-image-blunder-commemorates-wrong-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/northern-cyprus-lottery-image-blunder-commemorates-wrong-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Cyprus Lottery Image Blunder Commemorates \u2018Wrong\u2019 Side in Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lottery tickets are causing a political stink in the de facto state of Northern Cyprus<\/a>. That\u2019s after a batch designed to commemorate Turkish Cypriot resistance inadvertently depicted enemy Greek Cypriot fighters rejoicing with a captured Turkish flag.<\/p>\n

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The fighters shown on the tickets are in fact Greek Nationalist paramilitaries celebrating after capturing a Turkish flag. (Image: Turkey Posts English)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the words of Northern Cyprus President Ersin Tatar, it’s \u201ca huge and unforgiveable\u201d blunder.<\/p>\n

The Turkish Cypriot Lottery Administration is working to recall thousands of unsold tickets designed to celebrate the 58th anniversary of the Battle of Tylliria.<\/p>\n

Known to Greeks as the Battle of Kokkina, the 1964 conflict saw a group of outnumbered Turkish Cypriot fighters hold out. The battle was against Greek Cypriot armed forces and members of the Greek Nationalist paramilitary organization EOKA.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Turkish Air Force eventually relieved the besieged fighters, which bombed Greek Cypriot positions that had surrounded Turkish Cypriot enclaves.<\/p>\n

A decade later, Turkey invaded the north of Cyprus and partitioned the island, a division that continues to this day.<\/p>\n

\u2018Great Mistake\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The image printed on the tickets was intended to depict the besieged fighters, known as the Erenk\u00f6y Mujahideen, who are heroes in the eyes of Turkish Cypriots.<\/p>\n

But the figures in the image shown holding a Turkish flag are in fact EOKA fighters celebrating after capturing the flag from a Turkish Cypriot stronghold four months before the Battle of Tylliria.<\/p>\n

It is a great mistake to use the photographs taken by Greek-Cypriot soldiers and EOKA members as Erenk\u00f6y Mujahideen in the lottery tickets printed by the State Lottery Administration to commemorate the glorious Erenk\u00f6y Resistance,\u201d <\/strong>complained Tatar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThis is never acceptable,\u201d he continued. \u201cNo matter what, you cannot humiliate our mujahideen, the glorious Erenk\u00f6y resistance, our national struggle, and our saintly martyrs. No one has the right.”<\/p>\n

Investigation Launched<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Prime Minister \u00dcnal \u00dcstel said that an investigation had been launched into the incident and those responsible would be fired.<\/p>\n

In an official statement, Osman Uzun, head of the lottery administration, asked for forgiveness.<\/p>\n

We apologize to our people and our heroes of the \u015eanl\u0131 Erenk\u00f6y Resistance for the image used as a result of an inadvertent mistake,”<\/strong> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But Turkish Cypriot newspaper Avrupa<\/em> stoked the flames by accusing the lottery authority of deliberately doctoring the photo to obscure the image\u2019s original location and context.<\/p>\n

The draw, scheduled to take place on the August 8 anniversary of the battle, has been postponed for ten days. The jackpot has been raised from 500,000 to 1 million Turkish lira (US$56,000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lottery tickets are causing a political stink in the de facto state of Northern Cyprus. That\u2019s after a batch designed to commemorate Turkish Cypriot resistance inadvertently depicted enemy Greek Cypriot fighters rejoicing with a captured Turkish flag. In the words of Northern Cyprus President Ersin Tatar, it’s \u201ca huge and unforgiveable\u201d blunder. 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