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Home History Games News Dictionary		continued from Gambling in Turkey - 1 Sportingbet is another well known internet gambling firm weighing in on the topic, as they too have refused to leave the Turkish market in spite of legal difficulties. Two of the Sportingbet employees were even arrested by police in 2008. They’ve much reduced their activity in Turkey, limiting most of the active operations to the online gambling field, said Arnell, but make no mistake – they’re still in the game. Sportingbet, officially, continually makes promises that they are preparations to leave the market, but have yet to make good on that word, still accepting bets on the Sportingbet-run Super Bains website. Betsson, on the other hand, makes no such promises to leave, defending their position according to the European Union’s laws on free trade of goods and services in the Union. Arnell deftly points out that Turkey is not yet an official member of the Union, and so those particular regulations wouldn’t apply – yet. Betsson essentially has no legal standing for any of the decisions they’re making, but it does no good to point it out – the business is far too lucrative. Yet another defense is in regards to Betsson’s home base in Malta, not Turkey. Because they are not on Turkish soil, defends Fredrik Rüdén, the CFO of Betssons administrative office in Stockholm, the choice to sign on or not is in the citizens’ hands, and out of control of the online gambling group. It is not their responsibility to prosecute customers, and have the legal right to accept players worldwide. When asked if Betsson had any intention of leaving the Turkish market, Ruden responded that the question was irrelevant because their operations were all entirely legal. “If we had operations in Turkey, then we would consider [closing].” There is still proof that Betsson realizes that they are unwelcome in Turkey, for when the web filters hut off access, Betsson web masters changed the IP addresses for the online gambling platforms, bypassing the filters. By doing so every so often, they ensure that access to the prohibitied residents remains open. "At the time of writing, Betsson had added the digits 509 to the end of its URL," Zaman reports. "Ahi stated that this number would change constantly: 'When the BTK would block 310, they would default to 309, and if that was blocked, they would quickly change to another number.'

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Gambling in Turkey - 2

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Sportingbet is another well known internet gambling firm weighing in on the topic, as they too have refused to leave the Turkish market in spite of legal difficulties. Two of the Sportingbet employees were even arrested by police in 2008. They’ve much reduced their activity in Turkey, limiting most of the active operations to the online gambling field, said Arnell, but make no mistake – they’re still in the game. Sportingbet, officially, continually makes promises that they are preparations to leave the market, but have yet to make good on that word, still accepting bets on the Sportingbet-run Super Bains website.

Betsson, on the other hand, makes no such promises to leave, defending their position according to the European Union’s laws on free trade of goods and services in the Union. Arnell deftly points out that Turkey is not yet an official member of the Union, and so those particular regulations wouldn’t apply – yet. Betsson essentially has no legal standing for any of the decisions they’re making, but it does no good to point it out – the business is far too lucrative.

Yet another defense is in regards to Betsson’s home base in Malta, not Turkey. Because they are not on Turkish soil, defends Fredrik Rüdén, the CFO of Betssons administrative office in Stockholm, the choice to sign on or not is in the citizens’ hands, and out of control of the online gambling group. It is not their responsibility to prosecute customers, and have the legal right to accept players worldwide. When asked if Betsson had any intention of leaving the Turkish market, Ruden responded that the question was irrelevant because their operations were all entirely legal. “If we had operations in Turkey, then we would consider [closing].”

There is still proof that Betsson realizes that they are unwelcome in Turkey, for when the web filters hut off access, Betsson web masters changed the IP addresses for the online gambling platforms, bypassing the filters. By doing so every so often, they ensure that access to the prohibitied residents remains open. "At the time of writing, Betsson had added the digits 509 to the end of its URL," Zaman reports. "Ahi stated that this number would change constantly: 'When the BTK would block 310, they would default to 309, and if that was blocked, they would quickly change to another number.'