Retracting Interest
The pending Turkish lottery market has been a great source of concern and
interest for a lot of European online casino gambling groups because of possible
profits that will arise with the privatization of the Turkish market. One of the
major partnership deal vying for the Turkish lottery license was a deal between
Lottomatica, an Italian company with extensive interests in the international
lottery market and Dogan, a Turkish-based gaming company. In an interesting turn
of events, those two companies chose to withdraw their interest in the Turkish
lottery tender. There has been little information given on why the companies
withdrew their tender – they were already preliminarily approved.
The online casino gambling industry has been going strong over the past year and
there has certainly been a bit of speculation that the Turkish lottery market
will similarly prove lucrative. The one statement released by the two companies
though indicates that this is, perhaps, not the case. Dogan and Lottomatica
cited adverse market conditions as the reason for withdrawing their interest in
the Turkish lottery market. For the other gaming and gambling companies
interested in the privatization of the Turkish lottery, this comes as a welcome
surprise – there is now less competition and the Lottomatica brand was a very
real contender for winning the right to the Turkish lottery because of the
company’s extensive knowledge of international land and online casino lotteries.
Lottomatica and Dogan have mutually decided to bring an end to their previous
partnership agreement now that there are no further plans to access the Turkish
market. As for the Turkish market – there is just no telling when the
privatization of the land and online lottery will actually happen – that has
been in the works for some time now and yet very little has happened in the way
of actually choosing a lottery company and finishing the privatization process. |