Turkish illegal gambling operators posing as political parties want your vote

Authorities in Turkey have busted more gambling organizers posing as political parties to evade the country’s strict anti-gambling laws.

On Tuesday, Turkish authorities raided an office of the Future Party of Turkey (GTP) in the southern province of Adana after being tipped off that illegal gambling was going on inside. The police were forced to break down the building’s doors with a sledgehammer after repeated efforts to ring the doorbell went unanswered.

For the record, the Adana Police Department had now conducted over 100 raids on the same building, which was previously occupied (in turn) by the Cukurova Labor Union for Workers in the Entertainment and Accommodation Sectors (CEK-IS), the Rise of the Nationalist Will Party (MIY) and the Trust party.

Police have denounced all four organizations as mere fronts for illegal gambling activity. The Trust party was dissolved last year after its premises were raided 44 times. The MIY party was raided 11 times in roughly its first month of existence while the labor union popped its raid cherry in June.