Lotteries

Athens' Irish community and its many friends will celebrate Ireland's national holiday at the annual Greek-Irish Society St Patrick's Day Gala Ball at the Hotel Grande Bretagne, Syntagma Square.

The New Year's lottery tickets, with a grand prize set at 400 million Turkish Liras (&13.9 million), have already witnessed a remarkable 75 percent sales just a week before the draw.

Bu yıla özel olarak 200 milyon liralık büyük ikramiyenin tamamı dağıtım garantili olacak. Yani bilet payına bakılmaksızın, Büyük Ikramiye, isabet ettiği satılan bilet ya da biletler arasında eşit olarak paylaştırılacak. Ayrıca Milli Piyango Yılbaşı Çekilişi, büyük ikramiye satılan bilete çıkana kadar devam edecek.

Istanbul is taking the lead in the ticket sales of the New Year's lottery with a prize money of 120 million Turkish Liras ($8.8 million), daily Milliyet has reported.

The western province of İzmir, the northwestern province of Kocaeli and the capital Ankara follow Istanbul in the ticket sales, the daily reported on Dec. 8.

A man in the Black Sea province of Tokat has won 200,000 Turkish Liras ($21,920) from a scratch card that his father had thrown into the wastebasket, thinking that there was no lottery prize.
"I don't know why I did it, but I felt it in my bones to check the wastebasket and look at the scratch card once again," Mustafa Aydınoğlu, 24-year-old son, told the Demirören News Agency.

Inhabitants in the Aegean province of Denizli are seeking the lucky man whose lottery ticket has hit 212 million Turkish Liras ($25,1 million), the highest prize in the history of the National Lottery.

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The winner didn't appear until December 31, 2019.

Turkey's National Lottery cancels the special prize from the 2018 New Year's Lottery because the winner didn't show up within the deadline, FOCUS reports.

Turkey's National Lottery has claimed it has canceled ticket number 7615536 because the winner did not show up until December 31, 2019.

The prize money of Turkey's 2019 grand New Year lottery was divided into four on Dec. 31 evening after a quarter ticket emerged from the draw.

An official from the state-organized lottery said that the prize of 80 million Turkish liras ($13.4 million) had been won by ticket 1358490, with four lucky winners to share the sum.

The lucky man has guessed all six of the numbers on Monday.

The game "Lotto 6 of 47" was won on New Year's Eve. The lucky man has guessed all six of the numbers from Monday night's lottery draw. Thus, he won a jackpot of BGN 2 million, including a house, a sports car and a 10-day vacation for two in Dubai.