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...

Turkish government is planning to privatize the state-owned lottery Milli Piyango, with a ten year contract being granted to the winning bidder. The license will be awarded on a revenue sharing basis, with 20% of proceeds to go to the National Lottery Authority and the remaining 80% to go to the chosen operating company. The operating company will be responsible for the distribution of all prize money as well as contributions to the state institutions.

Istanbul, Turkey (May 12, 2008) -- For many years the Turkish privatization of the National Lottery, the Milli Piyango, has been on the role to be privatized. In the beginning of 2008 the Turkish Government proudly announced that the privatization would commence in May 2008. Some weeks later, though, a State Minister said that the privatization would begin the forthcoming month of June. However in an interview by GamblingAnalysts.eu with QLot’s Ales Kulich, it seems that the privatization will not take place in the short term. “All information in the media is still just rumours”, states Ales Kulich whose QLot’s Consulting assist the Turkish Privatization Authority.

The present political turmoil in Turkey will not stop three huge major gambling events which are planned for this year. Of course there is the European championship football, for which the national Turkish squad has been qualified. And this event will create very good times for the bookies, worldwide and in particular for the Turkish Iddaa sports football betting. Above that the privatization of the National Lottery will happen and the tender for operating the Turkish sports betting for a period of 10 years will take place.

Istanbul, Turkey (March 17, 2008), GamblingAnalysts.eu, the gambling research and analyst group, working from Istanbul and Amsterdam, launched two new reports on the Turkish gambling industry. This year two major gambling events will take place in Turkey: the privatization of the Turkish National lottery and the 10 year-long tender for sports betting. Professionals in this industry know how difficult it is in Turkey to get all the information needed for a proper decision.

The Hungarian Privatization and State Holding Company (ÁPV Rt.), which task is to push the sale and market based management of state assets determined by law as well as rendering accounts and the controlling of earlier privatization transactions, did not (yet) list the state owned National Lottery, Szerencsejáték Zrt. However the subject is discussed continuously in Budapest. The liberal junior governing SZDSZ party is a warm promoter of Privatizations in general and particularly in the privatization of the national lottery company Szerencsejáték Zrt. “In 2008”, said the chairman Janos Koka of the SZDSZ party...

The Turkish Government finally has set its National Lottery, Milli Piyango, in the display window for the (pre-) privatization. The Government has reconfirmed that Ernst & Young, and for the technical gambling facets, QLot Consultants, will assist the Turkish Privatization Authority (IPA) to realize this great ambition.
 Plans to privatize the National Lottery were already discussed under the administration of Turgut Özal in 1985, but so far has been too hot a political potato to be actually consumed.



Last Friday, Montevideo Local Council approved the privatization of Carrasco Hotel Casino. Its employees assisted to the session and opposed to the measure. When asked about the support of Anibal Glodosky, a representative of the opposite party, Fabían Villamarín, representative of the official party, pointed that he is a “moral guarantee” for Montevideo citizens, and added that the official party voted modifications performed by the two big political parties.