Journalists acquitted in Turkey over reports on currency crisis

Journalists acquitted in Turkey over reports on currency crisis
A bridge spans the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul (Anthony Devlin/PA)

A Turkish court on Friday acquitted two reporters for the US-based Bloomberg news agency who were accused of trying to undermine Turkey’s economic stability with a story on Turkey’s currency crisis in 2018.

Istanbul-based reporters Kerim Karakaya and Fercan Yalinkilic had faced up to five years in prison over the article they wrote in August 2018.

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