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[Valhelm]

Holy shit

Journalists and anti-censorship activists who I am in touch with in Turkey have been combing through the leaked documents, and I am not aware of anything “newsworthy” being uncovered. According to the collective searching capacity of long-term activists and journalists in Turkey, none of the “Erdogan emails” appear to be emails actually from Erdogan or his inner circle. Nobody seems to be able to find a smoking gun exposing people in positions of power and responsibility. This doesn’t rule out something eventually emerging, but there have been several days of extensive searching.

However, this dump does include massive databases containing sensitive and private information of millions of ordinary people, including a special database of almost all adult women in Turkey.

Yes — this “leak” actually contains spreadsheets of private, sensitive information of what appears to be every female voter in 79 out of 81 provinces in Turkey, including their home addresses and other private information, sometimes including their cellphone numbers. If these women are members of Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (known as the AKP), the dumped files also contain their Turkish citizenship ID, which increases the risk to them as the ID is used in practicing a range of basic rights and accessing services. I’ve gone through the files myself. The Istanbul file alone contains more than a million women’s private information, and there are 79 files, with most including information of many hundreds of thousands of women.

I have no idea what Assange hopes to gain from this.

 

[darkwing]

I guess their motto is :

is it a leak? leak it!

 

[SchrodingerC]

Just keep on sliding into the cesspool, Wikileaks.

 

[SirClinksAlot]

I have no idea what Assange hopes to gain from this.

A boost to his ego. AKA the only thing he gives a shit about.

 

[kamspy]

Where is the link to the wikileaks document that does this?

 

[Fury451]

Truly they are the second coming of Gawker

 

[Resident_UA]

As much as I used to be behind Wikileaks in the past at this point they are being used for political purposes...

 

[Velcro Fly]

RussiaLeaks strikes again it seems

 

[Sulik2]

Wikileaks lived long enough to become the villain. This accomplishes nothing and neither did leaving social security numbers in the DNC hack. I like the idea of releasing info that the public should be aware that Wikileaks is in theory, but without a reasonable hand guiding the info dumps you sabotage your own cause.

 

[jack_package_200]

Fuck Wikileaks and their defenders. This and the DNC leaks have nothing to do with transparency.

This is really terrible.

 

[Ric Flair]

RussiaLeaks strikes again it seems

Seriously though, fuck them. Putting peoples lives at risk

 

[Joni]

Should have told Erdogan, he wasted so much money blocking Wikileaks.

 

[Slayven]

Fuck Wikileaks and their defenders. This and the DNC leaks have nothing to do with transparency.

This is really terrible.

And there will be people that cheer this

 

[Jeels]

So with stuff like this, is there ever going to be a point where the international community really goes after Wikileaks? I mean, how do you even stop an organization like this? Do they have physical offices?

 

[ShockingAlberto]

I have no idea what Assange hopes to gain from this.

Boy there are a lot of bad jokes I could make here.

 

[EloquentM]

This is without a doubt fucking disgusting.

 

[SlimySnake]

wow. i hope Ecuador kicks him out of their embassy after this.

 

[kamspy]

Has anyone found the actual link to the wikileaks page with this information on it?

 

[Jenov]

Never trusted wikileaks. They've always been a politicized tool, there was never anything noble in their intentions.

 

[Geg]

But they care about transparency and accountability

 

[Lucumo]

I guess this makes the leak with 50 million names, addresses etc from a few years ago more complete.

 

[Stinkles]

Totally not in bed with the Kremlin. Just good guys fighting the good fight.

 

[SuperBanana]

Wtf? Why? Why even leak this? There's nothing journalistic about this. This is 4chan anonymous hacker kind of bullshit on an even worse scale.

 

[Oriel]

Thanks FSB. That new special relationship between Russia and Erdogan bearing fruit.

 

[Velcro Fly]

But they care about transparency and accountability

They threatened some radio or talk show host with legal action after she said she was going to go over the ties between wikileaks and Russia on her show. "our lawyers will be watching"

They are a shit show plain and simple.

 

[PdotMichael]

But outside of journalists nobody has access to the data. How is that a leak?

 

[Valhelm]

RussiaLeaks strikes again it seems

I'm not sure if this benefits Russia. The most likely horrible outcome is that opposition voters are targeted by pro-Erdogan mobs.

 

[Bony Manifesto]

As much as I used to be behind Wikileaks in the past at this point they are being used for political purposes...

Dude, they've always been overtly political. Their politics just no longer happen to overlap with yours.

 

[ThusZarathustra]

Has anyone found the actual link to the wikileaks page with this information on it?

They're part of the larger Erdogan email leak.

 

[kamspy]

I can't find this information on the wikileaks site.

Where is HuffPo getting this from? Is this an effort to discredit wikileaks because of what they're doing to the DNC?

They're part of the larger Erdogan email leak.

I think you might have pasted the wrong link.

 

[Xrenity]

But outside of journalists nobody has access to the data. How is that a leak?

I don't think this information's safe with journalists.

 

[ferrasvansen]

I'm glad most folk are finally coming around to the fact Wikileaks are a pretty awful outfit. Got fed up arguing with my friends over them, was nice today to finally see folk coming around to my viewpoint.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

But outside of journalists nobody has access to the data. How is that a leak?

Dumping this sort of information in the press' lap is in and of itself a morally questionable act. You are not absolved from responsibility just because you don't know how people will use the information.

The question is, how is this information newsworthy? And better yet, how is it not potentially harmful to a demographic (female voters) that are about to subjected to a patriarchal religious autocracy sometime in the next few years? Remember, Erdogan controls the largest media outlet in Turkey. And now he may have the names and addresses of every woman who voted against him.

 

[Ray Wonder]

Never mind, there's specific addresses.

 

[Foolworm]

But outside of journalists nobody has access to the data. How is that a leak?

It's literally on the front page on WikiLeaks.

 

[Stinkles]

I'm not sure if this benefits Russia. The most likely horrible outcome is that opposition voters are targeted by pro-Erdogan mobs.

Which benefits Putin. An isolated Turkey run by a right wing dictatorship with poor western relations is precisely what he wants. Separate the weak from the herd.

 

[Bony Manifesto]

The question is, how is this information newsworthy? And better yet, how is it not potentially harmful to a demographic (female voters) that are about to subjected to a patriarchal religious autocracy sometime in the next few years? Remember, Erdogan controls the largest media outlet in Turkey. And now he may have the names and addresses of every woman who voted against him.

This information contains how people voted?

 

[Prinz Eugn]

I'm not sure if this benefits Russia. The most likely horrible outcome is that opposition voters are targeted by pro-Erdogan mobs.

Weakened opponents = relative gain for Russia.

 

[Netherscourge]

Wikileaks is now a black market subterfuge business for evil regimes.

They dig up data, advertise it to various unscrupulous regime leaders and if the money is right, they'll release it publicly.

That's the only way I can look at them now. They are shit and very dangerous.

 

[ThusZarathustra]

I can't find this information on the wikileaks site.

Where is HuffPo getting this from? Is this an effort to discredit wikileaks because of what they're doing to the DNC?



I think you might have pasted the wrong link.

I'm fairly sure I didn't. It's all part of the same mass email and database dump.

 

[asagami_]

Can someone declare Wikileaks as a hate group, please? This is utterly bad and potentially can damage the life of those women.

 

[AJLma]

Why would they do this in a Middle Eastern Country...

 

[Souldriver]

Euh, what is going on with wikileaks?

Isn't there supposed to be moderation on what is in the publics interest to be released, and the press gets involved to (fact) check everything?

 

[maquiladora]

Has anyone found the actual link to the wikileaks page with this information on it?

I'm not going to post a link to people's personal information on here. But I went to the "Erdogan Emails" page and searched for .xls attachments. Clicked on a random file and it's an excel sheet with ~70,000 names, addresses, birthdates and cellphone numbers.

 

[StoOgE]

I guess their motto is :

is it a leak? leak it!

Does it help Putin?

Leak it!

 

[johnny956]

I'm not going to post a link to people's personal information on here. But I went to the "Erdogan Emails" page and searched for .xls attachments. Clicked on a random file and it's an attachment with ~70,000 names, addresses, birthdates and cellphone numbers.

sheesh

 

[Ekai]

Truly they are the second coming of Gawker

Except Gawker was fairly left wing. Wikileaks defends shit-heads like Milo.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Uhhhh...why?

 

[Frozenprince]

Euh, what is going on with wikileaks?

Isn't there supposed to be moderation on what is in the publics interest to be released, and the press gets involved to (fact) check everything?

LOL no.

They've never moderated anything, they're responsible for literally hundreds of deaths by leaking unchecked emails revealing the names of collaborators and translators in Afghanistan. Which was then used as a hit list.

People need to understand that wikileaks doesn't give a shit about human life, journalistic integrity, government transparency etc etc. Any of that shit.

They care about doing whatever they can to make America or enemies of Russia look bad. Fuck who has to die to do it.

 

[VariantX]

What is even the point of doing that, to potentially make people's lives miserable? This shit should be nuked off the Internet.