The driver for a private construction company, Bülent Kaşıkçı, crashed a vehicle he was driving on July 10, toppling into a nearby riverbed and losing $15,000 in cash that he was carrying on board.

Kaşıkçı said that the money was his personal belonging and eyewitnesses noted that he looked for the cash immediately after the crash, refusing to get into an ambulance that passerbys called.

One local named İsmail Sezgin found $300 stuck to a small boulder in the riverbed and immediately turned it into the police station, he said, adding that he had a hard time believing that much money had been lost.

The total thousand recovered was found in parts as $200, the first day, $500 the second day and $300.