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One of the funniest forgery stories is “100 liras for the Ottoman state”.”

During the 1915 war, Ottoman army commanders sent Staff Sergeant Muhammad Muzaffar to Istanbul to procure tires for the vehicles that would be used to transport soldiers and equipment to the front lines. Muzaffar found the tires at a merchant's shop, and when he went to the General Staff headquarters to collect the money to buy them, an officer read his request…