Bloomberg reporters in Turkey court over article
Two Bloomberg reporters went on trial in a Turkish court yesterday, facing up to five years in prison over claims they tried 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. Others in court appeared shocked to be on trial over throwaway comments on Twitter. “If me and the others in this room can ruin the economy with tweets, then we are all toast,” said one of the defendants, Halit Tokkus.
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