He sent 67,500 lira for a loaf of bread, and the kiosk owner paid it back

Imagine paying for a loaf of bread and watching 67,500 lira leave your account. That is exactly what happened in Samsun this week, and it ended better than you might expect.

What happened?

It took place in İlkadım, a district of the Black Sea city of Samsun. A customer came to a halk ekmek büfesi (a municipal-style bread kiosk selling cheap bread) and said he had no cash on him.

Kiosk operator Hacer Akkoyun offered her IBAN so he could pay by bank transfer. The customer meant to send 67.50 lira. Instead, he sent 67,500 lira, a thousand times more.

How was it sorted out?

About half an hour later, Akkoyun checked her account and saw a very large sum she hadn't expected. She got in touch with the person who sent it, and he came back to the kiosk. She returned the full excess amount.

Akkoyun, a mother of two, told the story herself. She said a fellow tradesperson had come in the day before around noon to buy bread, and that she noticed the extra money about half an hour after the transfer.

Why is it getting attention?

Mistakes like this are easy to make when you type amounts on a phone, and not everyone would hand the money back so quickly. Akkoyun kept it simple. "Humanity never died," she said, adding that as tradespeople they want to earn their bread honestly ("helal" in Turkish, meaning lawful and clean).

For the customer, it turned a very bad moment into a lucky one. For a bread kiosk, it was just another day of doing the right thing.