Türkiye jails 20 in stock-manipulation probe, blocks 246 social media accounts

Justice Minister Akın Gürlek said courts ordered 20 people jailed pending trial, four fund-management board officials and sixteen accused of panic-inducing social media posts, in two capital-markets manipulation probes; 51 more suspects were barred from leaving the country and 246 social media accounts were blocked by court order. “Those who exploit our citizens' hard-earned money, labour and savings will answer before the law,” Gürlek said. The case follows the investigation opened days earlier into a former exchange chief whose own public warning preceded a 6.6 percent stock plunge.

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