Turkey has banned its residents from accessing the WikiLeaksafter it leaked nearly 300,000 emails from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AKP party to the internet.
The leaked documents, dubbed the “Erdogan Emails,” were obtained a week before the attempted coup in Turkey to oust Erdogan that left nearly 300 dead. As a result, Wikileaks has scheduled its publications earlier in response to the coup. Wikileaks added that the source of the emails is not linked to the coup plotters or any rival political party.
The emails date from 2010 to July 6 this year. The nature and content of the emails associated with the domain are mainly used to address the public and not the most sensitive domestic issues, according to Wikileaks’ official website.
While none of them contain President Erdogan’s top-secret and personal emails, there is a mass correspondence between party members on the subject of highlighting the AKP’s dynamics and political agenda.
Wikileaks said on Twitter that Turks blocked from accessing its website can use a proxy or any of their IPs to access documents from Turkey's ruling party.
The Turkish government has already blocked access to websites it believes have or reproduce the material about Turkey, including YouTube and Twitter.
