WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks
has released a cache of thousands of personal emails allegedly from
the account of senior Turkish government minister Berat Albayrak,
son-in-law of the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which it
says shows the extent of links between Mr Albayrak and a company
implicated in deals with Isis-controlled oil fields.
The
60,000 strong searchable cache, released on Monday, spans the time
period between April 2000 - September 23 2016, and shows Mr Albayrak
had intimate knowledge of staffing and salary issues at Powertrans, a
company which was controversially given a monopoly on the road and
rail transportation of oil into the country from Iraqi Kurdistan.
Turkish
media reported in 2014 and 2015 that Powertrans has been accused of
mixing in oil produced by Isis in neighbouring Syria and adding it to
local shipments which eventually reached Turkey, although the charges
have not been substantiated by any solid evidence.
Mr
Albayrak has previously denied he has any connections to Powertrans.
The Independent's attempts to reach him were unsuccessful.
The
emails were apparently obtained by Redhack, a Turkish hactivist
collective. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that they were
published in response to the Turkish government’s widening
crackdown on dissent.
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