The state lottery ( Milli Piyango) and state-run sports and horse betting services are allowed.
The government has become an increasingly authoritarian regime with a population that is more than 95% Muslim by all estimations.Įvery form of gambling save state-run monopolies or Turkish Wealth Fund ( Türkçe) licensed enterprises is illegal. The northern part of the country is mostly coastal with Black Sea shores while some 40% of the country's southern border is on the Mediterranean sea and all of the eastern border off the peninsula is shared by the Agean and Marmara Seas. Turkey is a Middle Eastern country located mostly in Asia on the Anatolian peninsula above Cyprus and slightly situated in SE Europe, spanning the Balkan peninsula, bordering Bulgaria and Greece in the Northeast.
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