{"id":181360,"date":"2016-07-20T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/20\/wikileaks-releases-300k-emails-from-turkish-akp\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T00:00:00","slug":"wikileaks-releases-300k-emails-from-turkish-akp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/20\/wikileaks-releases-300k-emails-from-turkish-akp\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikileaks Releases 300K Emails from Turkish AKP"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have not been any bombshells discovered (yet), but the release of a year’s worth of emails from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan’s AKP party<\/a> should prove to be rather interesting:
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Over the weekend, the Internet may have saved the regime of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan<\/a>, as protestors organized online to fight a military coup, and Erdogan himself addressed the nation via Apple\u2019s Facetime video-calling app. Today, however, Erdogan may remember that he doesn\u2019t particularly like the Internet, after all\u2014as hundreds of thousands of his ruling party\u2019s alleged private correspondences spills onto the web. <\/p>\n

On Tuesday, WikiLeaks published what it\u2019s calling the Erdo\u011fan Emails<\/a>, a searchable collection of 294,548 emails it says are leaked from the AKP, Turkey\u2019s ruling political party, and the organization president Erdo\u011fan led before he was elected president. Turkish citizens and the world community are still struggling to understand the context of Turkey\u2019s coup and the crackdown that\u2019s followed, all of which could make this alleged Erdo\u011fan leak more significant than the secret-spilling group\u2019s average data dump. However, at the time of writing, it\u2019s not at all clear yet what exactly the Turkish-language megaleak contains, or if the emails are what Wikileaks claims they are. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe material was obtained a week before the attempted coup. However, WikiLeaks has moved forward its publication schedule in response to the government\u2019s post-coup purges,\u201d reads a note posted with the release on WikiLeaks\u2019 site. \u201cWe have verified the material and the source, who is not connected, in any way, to the elements behind the attempted coup, or to a rival political party or state.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I did a quick search of the data (for Bilal, Erdo\u011fan’s remarkably corrupt son), so the search works, but given my complete lack of understanding of the Turkish language, it proved of little use to me.<\/p>\n

Hopefully someone in the expat community (Turkey is blocking access to the site) will do a deep dive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There have not been any bombshells discovered (yet), but the release of a year’s worth of emails from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan’s AKP party should prove to be rather interesting: Over the weekend, the Internet may have saved the regime of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, as protestors organized online to fight a military …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,997,1099,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-internet","category-near-east","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}