British American Tobacco (BAT), has won the auction for the Turkish state-owned cigarette company, Tekel. UK-based BAT, which makes Dunhill and Lucky Strike, beat off competitors in a televised ...

Cigarettes dominate the tobacco market made up of local and imported foreign brands. Tekel is the only Turkish cigarette manufacturer. The company manufactures cigarettes for the domestic and ...

Tekel has six factories and sold 32bn cigarettes last year - more than a quarter of the 110bn smoked in Turkey. Today's sale was the third attempt from the Turkish government to sell Tekel under a ...