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WikiLeaks Releases 300K Turkey Government Emails In Response To Erdogan's Post-Coup Purges (rt.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from RT: Despite a massive cyberattack on its website, WikiLeaks has published the first batch of nearly 300,000 emails from the Turkish ruling AKP party's internal server and thousands of attached files in response to the Ankara government's widespread post-coup purges. Some 294,548 emails pertaining to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) were made public on Tuesday at 11:00pm Ankara time. WikiLeaks says that the release of almost 300,000 email bodies together with several thousand attached files, is just part one in the series and encompasses 762 mailboxes beginning with 'A' through to 'I.' All emails are attributed to "akparti.org.tr," the primary domain of the main political force in the country, and cover a period from 2010 up until July 6, 2016, just a week before the failed military coup. The NGO also revealed that one of the emails contained an Excel database of the cell phone numbers of AKP deputies. Prior to the release WikiLeaks suffered a "sustained attack" as it warned that Turkish government entities might try to interfere with the publication of the AKP material. The attacks are still continuing and users are experiencing difficulties in accessing the material. WikiLeaks reassured the public that they are "winning" the battle. A few hours after the release, WikiLeaks tweeted a screenshot showing the database to be blocked in Turkey, claiming that Ankara "ordered [the release] to be blocked nationwide." More than 200 people have died and over 1,400 injured from the attempted coup. Thousands of people have also been detained and/or lost their posts across the judiciary, military, interior ministry and civil service sectors. The Turkish president Erdogan is blaming the U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen for orchestrating the attempted coup.
There are emails showing that the President made this coup happen in order to weed out rebels and to strengthen his power?
Fascism is fascism, even when the fascist got the most votes.
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So long as Erdogan does as he is told, nothing. So long as he is our bastard, he can do what he wants.
But Erdogan does not doing what he is told. America would like to see Turkey become more democratic, secular, and bound to European institutions, including NATO, and eventually the EU. We would like Turkey to be tolerant of the Turkish Kurds in the south east, and support the Iraqi and Syrian Kurds in the fight against ISIS. Erdogan is doing the opposite of all these things. He is undermining democracy, arresting judges, and rounding up political opponents. He is promoting Islamic law, and imposing Halal restrictions on pork and alcohol onto non-muslims. He is provoking and attacking the Kurds. He was lukewarm in the fight against ISIS until they started setting off bombs in Turkish cities (which he tried to pin on the Kurds).
Turkey has turned it's back on Ataturk's dream of a modern secular state, and is destined to become yet another muzzy hell-hole.
It's just the other half of the propaganda puzzle. Ever since 2013 update to the NDAA the US government was allowed, after a 64 year ban, to perform propaganda operations against it's own citizens. So now, even more than before, the news inside the US can't be trusted. What you're seeing is Putin's operations... they cover what works for them. What works for them is often exactly the opposite of what works for the US government... as a results RT seems to have many stories that you don't see if most of your other news sources come from the US or it's allies.
A prized nugget for the Soviets and the Russians has always been the racial divide in the United States. Over the last two days US sources have had numerous stories about police departments having cook outs and such trying to engage with the community, the black community specifically, trying to end the wave of divisive violence. You won't see one mention of that on RT. You will see that RT did immediately cover the shooting targeting officers in New York. Anything remotely on their message gets sensationalized.
US domestic news sources continue to plug the headline of the thwarted coup in Turkey. He's their man, and Russia hates him. US news keeps repeating the US narrative. It's not Putin's narrative, so RT was a great source for news and footage of the riot police indiscriminately firing on citizens.
They're all lying to us. Your only options are to listen to it all and try and merge it into a cohesive logical picture... or just check out and listen to none of them. Both equally sound choices that should yield equally ineffective results. What ever their agendas, there's just too much disinformation to ever really sort it out.
Where do you get the idea from that the US gives a shit about Turkey being democratic? What matters is that the li'l mustache keeps his mouth shut, stays in the NATO and deploys his troops where we want them to, as long as he does that he can round up all judges and Kurds and whatever else he feels like.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.