{"id":18458,"date":"2010-04-14T15:49:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T13:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=18458"},"modified":"2014-01-05T19:24:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T17:24:40","slug":"greek-sues-over-photo-on-turkish-yoghurt-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/04\/14\/greek-sues-over-photo-on-turkish-yoghurt-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek sues over photo on &#8216;Turkish&#8217; yoghurt in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Greek man is suing a dairy in Sweden for 50 million kronor ($6.9m; \u00a34.5m) for using his image on pots of Turkish-style yoghurt, Swedish media report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18459\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Turkish-Yogurt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The man only found out his moustachioed face featured on the containers of Turkisk Yoghurt made by Lindahls when a friend living in Stockholm told him.<\/p>\n<p>Athanasios Varzanakos told Swedish Radio his friend &#8220;was annoyed and asked how it was possible&#8221; when informed.<\/p>\n<p>The dairy said it bought the photograph in good faith from an image library.<\/p>\n<p>Chief executive Anders Lindahl said it had come as a shock when the Greek man lodged a 40-page legal complaint saying that the company had used a misleading image because he had no links with Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We bought it from a photo agency so we assumed that everything was in order,&#8221; Mr Lindahl told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>The image remains on the Lindahls website despite the legal action.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between Greece and Turkey have long been strained and at times have turned into outright hostility.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/8612575.stm\">BBC<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Greek man is suing a dairy in Sweden for 50 million kronor ($6.9m; \u00a34.5m) for using his image on pots of Turkish-style yoghurt, Swedish media report. The man only found out his moustachioed face featured on the containers of Turkisk Yoghurt made by Lindahls when a friend living in Stockholm told him. Athanasios Varzanakos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":18459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,502,89,922],"tags":[2843,2020,9762],"class_list":["post-18458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece","category-sweden","category-turkey","category-world","tag-turkish-yoghurt","tag-greek","tag-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}