WikiLeaks has released part one of the emails by the ruling AKP (Justice and Deevelopment Party).

Part one of the series covers 762 mail boxes beginning with 'A' through to 'I' containing 294,548 email bodies together with many thousands of attached files. The emails come from "akparti.org.tr", the AKP's primary domain. The most recent was sent on July 6, 2016. The oldest dates back to 2010.

Wikileaks said it should be noted that emails associated with the domain are mostly used for dealing with the world, as opposed to the most sensitive internal matters.

“The material was obtained a week before the attempted coup. However, WikiLeaks has moved forward its publication schedule in response to the government's post-coup purges. We have verified the material and the source, who is not connected, in any way, to the elements behind the attempted coup, or to a rival political party or state.”

WikiLeaks had come under cyber attack after announcing the imminent release of the AKP's emails. In a statement about the attack, WikiLeaks said; “Our infrastructure is under sustained attack. We are unsure of the true origin of the attack. The timing suggests a Turkish state power faction or its allies. We will prevail and publish.”

After the release of 300 thousand emails at 11:00 pm Turkey time Tuesday night, the WikiLeaks site was blocked nationwide in Turkey today.