WikiLeaks makes nearly 300,000 Turkish AK Party emails searchable

The whistleblower site WikiLeaks has published 294,548 emails from 762 different mailboxes of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkish AK party. According to the site, it received the database a week before the recent coup attempt.

The emails with attachments are searchable by words, file names in attachments and by email addresses, WikiLeaks said. The database comes from a domain of the AK party, akparti.org.tr, which serves as the main domain of the political organization. The oldest emails are said to date back to 2010, WikiLeaks adds.

There would be no sensitive internal information in the emails, as these mailboxes were mainly used for external business. WikiLeaks has verified the source and authenticity of the database and can confirm that whoever submitted the data is unrelated to the coup attempt. The publication has been accelerated in response to the purges that have taken place since the attempt, the site says.

Around the time of its publication on Tuesday, WikiLeaks’ infrastructure has been “constantly attacked,” it said left the site via Twitter. It would be impossible to determine who is responsible for these attacks. After the publication on Wednesday, the site announced via Twitter that the Turkish government has officially placed a blockade. The site can still be reached via other IP addresses and via Tor.