A strategic insight into the importance of Web and Mobile Analytics for gambling operators. This expert article from 2010 by analyst Rob van der Gaast explores why analyzing user behavior, customer profiles, and campaign effectiveness is crucial for success in online gambling—a topic more relevant today than ever.

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.

A historical analysis of a key moment in European gambling regulation. This expert article from 2009 by Rob van der Gaast provides an in-depth look at the liberalization of the French betting market, listing the major operators preparing to enter and the market data from that era.

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...