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ISTANBUL, TURKEY – Selim Suner’s luck could have turned out very differently if not for an impulse to put ₺135 lira – roughly a hundred dollars –, into an online gambling website just weeks before he was set to take a leave of absence from his union job at the Turkish daily Sabah to complete his compulsory military service in 2008.