WikiLeaks boasts that it is preparing to dump hundreds of thousands of emails from the AKP, the political party of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and they are expecting a “fight”, even though they describe the documents as both helpful and harmful to AKP.
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Of course, one might expect the “power structure” of Turkey to have quite a few penciled-in corrections these days, as Erdogan carries out a massive purge in the wake of last weekend’s unsuccessful coup.
The emails come from “akparti.org.tr”, the AKP’s primary domain.
Meanwhile, crowds of pro-government supporters have called for reinstatement of the death penalty to deal with the “plotters” and Erdogan said those attempting a coup would have to “pay the price”.
Turkish authorities had suspended or detained close to 20,000 soldiers, police, judges and civil servants after the coup.
The source of the e-mails was not connected to the coup plotters or to a rival political party or state, WikiLeaks said. On Monday, however, the group said it planned to release 300,000 internal emails in addition to another 500,000 documents.
WikiLeaks initially said Sunday that it had planned to publish 100,000 files concerning Turkish politics.
“We ask that Turks are ready with censorship bypassing systems such as TorBrowser and uTorrent”.
By Tuesday, it posted that its site was under sustained attack which it suggested was carried out by a “Turkish state power faction or its allies” -, drawing criticism from followers who accused the not-for-profit of teasing them with “trailers”.
Turkey’s Telecommunications Communications Board said on Wednesday that an “administrative measure” had been taken against the website – the term it commonly uses when blocking access to sites.
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