PokerNews Launches Turkish Website

(EMAILWIRE.COM, February 06, 2007 ) Nicosia, Cyprus -- PokerNews (http://www.pokernews.com) recently added PokerNews Turkey (http://tr.pokernews.com) to its growing stable of PokerNews websites. PokerNews Turkey will provide up-to-date poker news, resources, reviews and promotions written entirely in Turkish.PokerNews recently launched PokerNews Turkey (http://tr.pokernews.com), a welcome addition to the PokerNews family, and the beginnings of a PokerNews foray into the Middle East.With the popularity of poker continuing to spread, Asia and the Middle East are anticipated to be the next regions to experience a poker boom, making the launch of PokerNews Turkey very timely.PokerNews Turkey will feature all the hallmarks of a PokerNews website – the latest poker news from home and abroad, reviews, resources and special local promotions for readers – written in Turkish for Turkish readers.The editor for PokerNews Turkey is highly enthusiastic about sharing his love of poker with his countrymen,”I am looking forward to providing Turkish speakers and Turks around the world with the very best in poker news coverage. Our network of sites at PokerNews.com provides excellent global coverage which is of great interest to Turkish people who, until now, have had no poker news in their own language.”PokerNews currently provides websites for nationals of Germany, France, Italy, Holland, Russia, Sweden, Poland, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Greece, Portugal, Estonia, Spain, China, Japan, Israel, Turkey and Romania. These sit alongside the English versions from the U.K, Australia and America. There are also a number of PokerNews language websites planned for launch in the coming months.About PokerNews LtdPokerNews Ltd incorporates PokerNews.com (http://www.pokernews.com) which is considered to be the independent online poker authority, having been picked by Forbes as "Best of Web" for the Poker category. PokerNews features daily news, reviews of the major poker rooms, live feeds of tournaments available online as well as special bonuses and freerolls, and is available in over 20 different languages. PokerNews Ltd also incorporates PokerNewsCasino (http://casino.pokernews.com), PokerNewsBingo (http://bingo.pokernews.com) and PokerNewsBackgammon (http://backgammon.pokernews.com), which all provide up-to-date news and information in the PokerNews tradition.

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Gareth Edwards

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