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AFP
Istanbul
Two Bloomberg reporters appeared in a Turkish court on Friday accused of trying to sabotage the economy with an article about last year’s currency crisis.
They were among dozens of defendants, including some who had simply written jokes about the currency crisis on Twitter.
The Bloomberg article was published in August 2018 on a dramatic day when the lira lost around a fifth of its value against the dollar. It said the central bank would hold an emergency meeting.
“For the central bank to call a meeting was normal... I hardly understand why our story has received such a reaction,” Kerim Karakaya, one of the journalists, told the court.
He faces trial along with his colleague Fercan
Yalinkilic.
Conspiracy theories are widely believed in Turkey, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has often stoked suspicions of the foreign media, saying they are trying to undermine the country.
Istanbul
Two Bloomberg reporters appeared in a Turkish court on Friday accused of trying to sabotage the economy with an article about last year’s currency crisis.
They were among dozens of defendants, including some who had simply written jokes about the currency crisis on Twitter.
The Bloomberg article was published in August 2018 on a dramatic day when the lira lost around a fifth of its value against the dollar. It said the central bank would hold an emergency meeting.
“For the central bank to call a meeting was normal... I hardly understand why our story has received such a reaction,” Kerim Karakaya, one of the journalists, told the court.
He faces trial along with his colleague Fercan
Yalinkilic.
Conspiracy theories are widely believed in Turkey, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has often stoked suspicions of the foreign media, saying they are trying to undermine the country.
