An ongoing DDoS attack threw WikiLeaks into a hindrance to the publication of various documents related to the failed Turkish coup.
Yesterday, WikiLeaks tweeted that an upcoming leak would reveal 300.000 messages electronics post officeand over 500.000 documents.
According to WikiLeaks, the documents leaked from the AKP (Turkish: Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi and the Greek: Justice and Development Party), which is the party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
WikiLeaks announced the data three days after the failed attempt by a small Turkish army team to take over the country's leadership through a military coup that failed a few hours later. In this 208 coup killed people and 2.000 people were injured.
So today WikiLeaks reported: "our infrastructure is under constant attack."
Below are the related tweets. At the time of writing, WikiLeaks appears to be online again, but has not published the documents he has announced.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/755058456378351616
Turks will probably be censored to prevent them from reading our pending release of 100k + docs on politics leading to the coup. (1 / 3)
- WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 18, 2016
We ask that Turks are ready with censorship bypassing systems such as TorBrowser and uTorrent (2/3)
- WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 18, 2016
And that everyone else is ready to help them bypass censorship and push our links through the censorship to come. (3 / 3)
- WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 18, 2016
Our infrastructure is under sustained attack. #TurkeyPurge #Turkey
- WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 18, 2016
We are unsure of the true origin of the attack. The timing suggests a Turkish state power faction or its allies. We will prevail & publish.
- WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 18, 2016
