She wins the lottery; divorces her husband

Monday, December 18, 2006 posted 12:54 AM EST

Yeşim Akyol said: "my husband has got intolerable due to his alcohol habit and aggressiveness. I founded him a bureau and bought him an automobile; but he slandered me for my virtue by saying my child's father is another man, not him."

Yeşim Akyol who won the lottery of 2 million YTL divorced her husband. The couple could not use the lottery prize money due to the action.

The turning point of the Akyols' life was 31 December 2002. Akyol won the lottery prize of 2 million YTL given by a supermarket as promotion. Yeşim Akyol continued her job and applied to the Istanbul Bakırköy law court for divorce 19 months later. Yeşim Akyol said: "my husband has got intolerable due to his alcohol habit and aggressiveness. I founded him a bureau and bought him an automobile; but he slandered me for my virtue by saying my child's father is another man, not him." The husband Güray Akyol claimed that his wife gave 350 thousand YTL to her family without asking him and left the house very often which injured his feelings. The court divorced the couple married for 8 years; placed the child under the mother's guardianship and resolved the husband the pay 500 YTL alimony.

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