Turkish Prosecutor Requests Jail for Two Bloomberg Reporters
- 36 others charged for comments about economy on social media
- Charges relate to August 2018 news story amid lira meltdown
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A Turkish court accepted an indictment from a prosecutor requesting a jail term of between two and five years for two Bloomberg reporters and 36 other people upon a request from the nation’s banking regulator.
The charges relate to an August 2018 Bloomberg story about how Turkish authorities and banks were responding to the biggest currency shock in the country since 2001.