Turkey increasing jail time for food stockpiling
Ahval News, 10 May, 2022 The Turkish government is preparing to increase jail sentences over charges of food stockpiling to up to three years, the justice minister announced on Tuesday, as the country faces soaring inflation amid an economic downturn. Ankara is preparing to reset a lower and upper limit to jailtime on the crime, Cumhuriyet newspaper cited Bekir Bozdağ as saying. “We are changing the penalty of food stockpiling and price gouging to between one and three years in prison,” Bozdağ…