Gambling Web- and Mobile sites are essential marketing tools for gambling operators. Online gambling increases on a yearly basis of 7% and H2 Gambling Capital expects interactive gambling to represent USD 30bn of a global estimated market of USD 352bn in 2010. In general the analysis of both online and offline gambling Web and Mobile Analytics (WMA) and analytics in general, play an ever-increasing role in catching the behavior of visitors and players in the gambling industry.

Istanbul, Turkey (January 21, 2010) – The Spor Toto Teskilat Mudurlugu (State Sports Betting Organization) has auctioned another three sports betting licenses, totaling 5 online operators. And 5 more licenses will be auctioned later. Presently three players are operating actively on the online betting market in Turkey: 
- Bilyoner.com, co-owned by Çukurova Holding’s Demir Toprak and Greece’s Intralot (founded on 13 June, 2005): Nesine.com, owned by the Dogan Group (founded 11 July 2006);
- Misli.com, entered the market some months ago and is an initiative of Misli Elektronik sans Oyunlan ve Yay AS:

Privatization comes in handy. Is seems to be a magic tonic. Daily we hear people talking about “privatizations”. One can privatize, Roads, Schools, Golf Courses, Airports, Postal Services, Energy, Prisons, Marinas, Water, Nursing Homes… …and GAMBLING. “Gambling-Privatization” is an other panacea, where Governments are suddenly focusing on as a desirable target: Why not privatize it? It will only be a matter of time. Governments need the money and the cash rich gambling operators have that money.

The privatization of the state-owned Turkish national lottery, Milli Piyango, has been cancelled after the final two bidders, OPAP+ and Turkcell+, failed to match the US$ 1.62 billion valuation set for the lottery by the tender commission. When Greece’ Intralot backed out off the Milli Piyango privatization process, it should have been a wake up call for Turkish Privatization Administration, or ÖİB.

“The Danish gaming legislation can be characterized as a difficult balancing act between consideration for tradition and the desire to nevertheless permit a gaming market”, The future of gaming in Denmark.
 Under heavy pressure of the European Commission the Danish Government revealed plans to implement a regulated and liberalization of the gaming market.

All eyes are focused on the French betting industry. A complete new gaming law will see the light in a couple of weeks, and will bring in 2010 a first sports betting liberalization/privatization in France, with its 64 million in habitants.
 
All involved operators are already in their starting blocks. They are the following interested contenders, such as Intralot, OPAP, Stanleybet, Ladbrokes, Österreichische Lotterien, Lottomatica, Unibet, Paf, BetClic, bwin Interactive Entertainment, Betfair, Everest Poker and its subsidiary of GigaMedia etc.

On January 6, 2009, the Privatization Administration made an Amendment Announcement for the privatization of the Turkish National Lottery, by granting the license for a 10-year period. The pre-qualification submission deadline was laid down for February 16, 2009. Games of Chance Data Room and Data Site application deadline was delayed to March 2, 2009 and the Games of Chance Data Room and Data Site access had to be changed from March 6 to March 30, 2009.

The new privatization report “All you have to know for the privatization of the two French monopolies – PMU for horse racing and Francaise des Jeux for the lotteries” will be continuously updated. This new process, of daily latest news gathering, proved to be a great success with our previous reports. GamblingAnalysts.eu will again give the maximum information to the buyers of the new privatization report on the French monopolies. The last privatization report on the Turkish Lottery had more than 90 pages.

GamblingAnalysts.eu, working as a long-time scientific research institute and gambling analyst in Europe, finished a study on the gambling industry in North Cyprus. Until now, no such research has been executed in North Cyprus. The gambling industry – casinos, (sports) betting, internet & mobile betting – is at this moment regulated and professionalized in North Cyprus. New serious players have entered the market and at present there are 23 casinos!

Islam prohibits gambling. Gambling in a way is connected to competitions and awards. For the sake of this article, so writes Paul Wouters, lawyer in Istanbul and the authoritative Islamic banking specialist, I would appreciate you to follow my lead in the reasoning. Please be aware that amongst the different schools of legal thought, there can be specific nuances. Islamic jurists so far have not given a direct and clear definition of gambling. Gambling is considered to be a game that allows the winner to take the bet…

Fresh reunification talks on the divided Cyprus island may lead to a triple turn over of the casino industry in North Cyprus. Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders met, on September 3, 2008, in the separated former capital Nicosia to start new round of reunification talks after a four-year break. This is the first time since the 1974 conflict that two moderate leaders will try to solve seriously the Cyprus problem. Greek Cypriot leader, president Demetris Christofias and his Turkish counterpart Mehmet Ali Talat started negotiations…

On June 9, 2008, LotteryInsider published the following information on the privatization of the Milli Piyango, the Turkish national lottery: “The method of giving a ten-year license will be used in the privatization of the Turkey’s state-owned National Lottery (Milli Piyango) in line with „sharing of revenues,“ a statement issued in its official website said.
 English speaking website ‘Hürriyet’ reports that according to the privatization ruling, 20 percent of total revenues will be given to the National Lottery Authority…