WikiLeaks has released over 57,000 personal emails of Turkey’s Minister of Oil Berat Albayrak, the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The emails spanning from 2000 to 2016 allegedly detail exchanges between Albayrak and the Turkish “ruling elite” and highlight his influence across the country’s political scene.
The emails appear to have been sourced from the Turkish hacktivist group Redhack, which had previously claimed to have obtained Albayrak’s emails and threatened to release them publicly back in September 2016 if the government continued to detain leftists. Redhack’s emails were allegedly briefly published, only to later disappear from the internet following the Turkish government’s escalating crackdown on media. – READ MORE
