According to the bureau, gasoline rose 9.1% over the month and accounted for more than half of the overall increase. Energy climbed 5.2%, while food prices were unchanged.
Excluding food and energy, the index rose 0.3% over the month and 2.6% over the year, compared with 2.4% in August. These figures describe an acceleration extending beyond the energy component alone.
Hürriyet Daily News and L’Agefi report the official data. Their reports are not independent measurements of prices: the figures remain attributed to the BLS.