Mangala is a still popular pastime in Gaziantep, Southeast Anatolia. The game might be related to the Syrian La'b Madjnuni and could even be identical, since Culin didn't give playable rules and obviously made many mistakes in his description of the Syrian mancala games. The Mangala of Gaziantep was first described by Adnan Güllü in the Turkish newspaper "Elbistan Kaynarca Gazetesi" in 2007.