Today, 11pm Anakara Time, WikiLeaks releases part one of the AKP
Emails. AKP, or the Justice & Development Party, is the ruling party
of Turkey and is the political force behind the country's president,
Recep Tayyip ErdoΔan. Part one of the series covers 762 mail boxes
beginning with 'A' through to 'I' containing 294,548 email bodies
together with many thousands of attached files. The emails come from
"akparti.org.tr", the AKP's primary domain. The most recent was sent on
July 6, 2016. The oldest dates back to 2010. It should be noted that
emails associated with the domain are mostly used for dealing with the
world, as opposed to the most sensitive internal matters.
The material was obtained a week before the attempted coup. However,
WikiLeaks has moved forward its publication schedule in response to the
government's post-coup purges. We 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.