In parallel with the Turkish government’s plans to curb soaring inflation by preventing hoarding and what it calls speculative pricing, financial police have raided warehouses in different parts of the country suspected of stockpiling onions and potatoes.

Turkey has been beset by skyrocketing prices this year as the Turkish lira slid against the dollar and inflation climbed to a 15-year high of 25.2 percent.

Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak ordered inspectors to the agricultural region of Çorum on Tuesday, northeast of the capital Ankara, to comb through storage depots and count onions. The increase in the price of onions is three times higher than overall inflation, government figures show.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan repeated on Thursday that the government planned to inspect warehouses that were suspected of stockpiling vegetables.

“Everyone now sees that the attacks against Turkey also have an economic dimension,” he said. “There is no difference between a terrorist who has a gun or a bomb and a terrorist who has dollars, euros, and interest rates,” Erdoğan said during a speech at the presidential palace to local administrative officers, known as muhtars, from across the country.