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The disciplinary board gave every club official it found in breach the same sanction, the shortest the betting rule allows once its full discretionary discount is applied, and cleared two in three of those referred without published reasons. After referees and players, the boardroom phase of Turkish football's betting purge has drawn the lightest penalties of the three.

The federation has extended its betting purge from referees and players to the boardroom, provisionally suspending 448 current and former officials of top-two-division clubs on 30 September. The officials now face bans of three months to a year, and two of the best known say they bet through legal accounts.

The Interior Ministry says gendarmerie, MASAK and prosecutors traced bank movements worth about €316m through accounts used to run betting sites and launder their proceeds, the latest in a year of escalating operations.

Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi escalates crackdown on unlicensed gambling, blaming digital payments and organised crime for illegal betting's explosive growth. Turkey's annual black-market betting reaches $40 billion.

Turkish prosecutors instructed 32 banks to freeze thousands of accounts at the moment the World Cup final kicked off, striking at the payment rails of an illegal betting market they estimate could handle as much as US$50 billion across the tournament.

Türkiye reported more than 84,000 illegal gambling sites for closure in 2025 and froze roughly 5.1 billion lira, approximately $131 million, in suspect funds, yet offshore hosting and resilient demand expose the limits of a prohibition-led strategy with no licensed alternative.

The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) has suspended 1,024 players across the country’s professional leagues for breaching regulations by betting on football

A comprehensive new report from Turkey's most prominent public health organisation has uncovered a deeply alarming link between the country's growing gambling

Global lottery and gaming technology supplier Intralot has reported a stable first-half performance, but the company's leadership has made it clear that its

In a seismic development for the global gambling industry, Kenny Alexander, the former CEO who built GVC Holdings into the FTSE 100 giant now known as Entain,

A senior member of the Turkish government has conceded that the state lacks a comprehensive understanding of the country's gambling addiction problem, a

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is facing intense criticism over the government’s perceived inaction on illegal online gambling. This follows the