PartyGaming stops Turkish wagers at online gambling sites

April 11, 2007

Today, online gambling news for Turkish players from PartyGaming is not good. PartyGaming has released a statement that it will no longer agree to Turkish citizens playing at the site for real money bets. This goes for all PartyGaming online gambling sites.

These players can of course still take part in free wagering and playing on the network’s sites, but no money will be accepted.

This news come after the passing of recent legislation which prohibits certain forms of online gambling from being offered by an unauthorized domestic or foreign company to citizens in Turkey, the network has now taken all sensible steps to make sure that customers in Turkey are deprived of access to any of the network’s gambling sites.

Back in February, Turkish law makers passed a law barring unlawful operators from providing online gambling services fro real money. The new law prompted NETeller and others to pull out of the Turkish market last month.

Turkey does permit citizens to make bets through its state run monopoly. This is most likely why the area does not allow online gambling - it wants to regulate the funds.

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