Article: GTECH Wins $50 Million Contract to Install Lottery in Turkey.(Originated from Providence Journal-Bulletin, R.I.)

Feb. 17--Turkey, the historic gateway between East and West, has selected Rhode Island's GTECH to install a national lottery.

The contract, worth about $50 million over five years, comes after more than five years of behind-the-scenes work by GTECH.

It is GTECH's first Middle Eastern job.

With an ultimate installation of 5,000 lottery terminals, Turkey's system will be comparable in size to New Jersey's lottery, one of America's 10 largest. But Turkey's population, at roughly 60 million, is about eight times that of New Jersey.

"Turkey, because of its significant economic growth potential, is an area of the world which is of strategic importance ...

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