WikiLeaks has released nearly 300,000 secret emails from the incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice & Development Party (AKP) in response to the Ankara government’s widespread post-coup purges.
The whistleblowing organisation went ahead with publishing despite an orchestrated cyber attack on its servers, and an attempt by the government to block the website in Turkey.
The most recent email in the trove was sent on 6 July 2016, a week before the coup, dating back as far as 2010.