Turkeys Law against Unlicensed Casinos
Turkey has passed a law on February 28, 2007 which forbids unauthorized domestic or foreign operators to offer services on its citizens. When the law was passed by the legislators’ foreign company owned internet casinos filed a protest. The online casinos which are mostly owned by foreign companies see it unfair on their part because a chunk of their profit would be lost as a result of such legislation. To make things clear it is important to have an overview of the issue concerning the passage of the bill. One major reason why lawmakers pass such bill is to ensure the protection of partially owned casinos. It is hard enough to compete against unlicensed domestic gambling companies. To make matters worst. They have to compete against giant internet base casinos which are not even licensed. Resulting drainage of their citizens income but also a potential threat on government owned casinos. As reported in playsportal.net Web wagering and sportsbook site, government owned gambling companies have to compete on potential customers. This would definitely result in decrease of income from government. Privately owned gaming companies feel that the law was unjust and people should be given a chance to choose instead of passing laws that limits their decisions. Some says it destroys the spirit of free competition and the government’s imposition of its control. However, I do not see it that way because it is the government’s duty to protect the interests of its people. One way of protecting it is passing laws to ensure that the majority benefits. It is necessary to safeguard government owned casinos because Turkey’s citizens would greatly benefit from the income produced by such casino. To let an unlicensed gambling company compete that is unfair. To make matters worse most of these online gambling companies do not even pay a single tax. Therefore, government could not benefit from these companies.
