Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- A Turkish law published in the Official Gazette yesterday requires one-third of the members of the board of directors of companies traded on the ISE 30 index of the country’s biggest firms to be independent, an official of the market regulator said on usual condition of anonymity today by telephone.

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