Tag Archives: Turkey

GVC, owners of betting brands such as bwin, SportingBet, Ladbrokes and Coral, has moved swiftly to deny reports in the Sunday Times newspaper of any suspicious activity as it offloaded gambling operations in Turkey to smooth the way to its purchase of Ladbrokes Coral. GVC sold its Turkish operations to Ropso Malta Limited for €150m…

Turkey’s new sports betting licence has been awarded to Sans Girism OGG, a consortium made up of Scientific Games and Turkish company Demirören Group. The contract will run for ten years and sees the consortium run the state-owned Iddaa-SporToto, Europe’s largest state-sponsored sports betting market and among the top three in the world in sales….

Intralot has made a bid to the Sportoto State Organisation competition to manage its sports betting for 10 years through its Turisk subsidiary Intelek. It submitted its final financial offer on February 13 and awaits the decision of the Competition Committee. Intelek has been active in Turkey’s sports betting market since 2004 and manages the…

The President of Turkey’s hotel association has said the authorities need to legalise casinos again to attract greater numbers of Chinese tourists. Turkish Hoteliers Association (TÜROB) President Timur Bayındır wants tourist-only casinos in order to stop losing Chinese tourists to neighbouring countries who do have casinos. Turkey banned casinos in 1998 following suggestions of mafia…