{"id":4822,"date":"2019-03-03T02:12:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T07:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realmoneygambling.com\/news\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2019-03-03T02:12:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T07:12:19","slug":"sg-and-demiroren-group-win-betting-rights-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realmoneygambling.com\/news\/sg-and-demiroren-group-win-betting-rights-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"SG and Demir\u00f6ren Group Win Betting Rights in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n

Turkish is a vibrant sports betting market, but it’s not necessarily easy to survive in the country’s fraught legal context. Intralot\u2019s Inteltek subsidiary<\/strong> has just lost a tender which would have allowed it to run the country’s monopoly Iddaa<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n

Intralot lost to Scientific Games<\/strong> and Demir\u00f6ren Group<\/strong>, which had joined forces to provide the country with its future sports betting options. SG also had a significant advantage teaming up with Demir\u00f6ren Group, a local conglomerate, and thus giving itself better chances of success. The newly-formed joint-venture between the company, Sans Girisim<\/strong>, had little trouble clearing the qualifying criteria for the deal.<\/p>\n\n\n

On February 28, the SporToto State Organization<\/strong> confirmed that the pair had been approved and awarded the significant multi-year partnership. As a result, Demir\u00f6ren Group and SG <\/a>will run Iddaa in the next ten years, until 2029. <\/p>\n\n\n

Providing Turkey with Sports Betting Terminals<\/h2>\n\n\n

The tender awards Sans Girisim with exclusive rights to provide a\nnation-wide network of sports betting solutions that will be utilized across\nindividual sportsbooks in Turkey. The offer is quite versatile as well,\nincluding fixed-odds and pari-mutuel bets. <\/p>\n\n\n

Final adjustments have been needed to make sure that Sans Girisim is prepared to mange the country’s sports betting climate, with Demir\u00f6ren chairman Yildirim Demir\u00f6ren quitting the Turkish Football Federation (TFF)<\/a>. Mr. Demir\u00f6ren is supposedly close to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which may have given SG a better shot at a local deal.<\/p>\n\n\n

The companies will seek to generate a substantial windfall in the years ahead, notching up at lest $3.1 billion in total sports betting handle. As to Inteltek, the company used to run sports betting operations in the country between 2004 and 2018, although the subsidiary first opened doors in the country in 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n

In 2018, the company got a one-year upgrade on its contract, but\nthis is now about to change with the newly-drawn partnership between Sans\nGirisim and the Turkish regulator. <\/p>\n\n\n

Comparing the offers of Sans Girisim and Intralot, it’s worth\nnoting that the latter was fully able to meet the needs of sports betting fans\nin Turkey. Given the company’s experience operating in the specific market, the decision of SporToto to award Sans\nGirisim seems to be politically motivated<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n

Mr. Erdogan hasn’t openly supported either of the parties, but his\nrhetoric has been increasingly nationalistic. Given his connections to Mr. Demir\u00f6ren,\nIntralot might have just picked a fight that it couldn’t have possibly won.<\/p>\n\n\n

In any event, SG remains a worthy entrant on the Turkish sports\nbetting market and in all cases, a supplier that will be able to meet the needs\nof local bettors. <\/p>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkish is a vibrant sports betting market, but it’s not necessarily easy to survive in the country’s fraught legal context. Intralot\u2019s Inteltek subsidiary has just lost a tender which would have allowed it to run the country’s monopoly Iddaa. 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