Turkish court sentences WSJ reporter to 2 years in prison

Wall Street Journal reporter Ayla Albayrak was sentenced by a Turkish court to two years and one month in prison on Tuesday for, in the court's view, "engaging in terrorist propaganda in support of a banned Kurdish separatist organization," according to the Journal. Albayrak is currently in the U.S. and plans to appeal the decision, WSJ reports.

Why it matters: Turkey has 188 journalists jailed currently, surpassing any other country, per Bloomberg. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in September that most of the jailed journalists "aren't journalists whatsoever. Most of these are terrorists."