Turkey blocks access to WikiLeaks

Turkey has blocked access to the WikiLeaks website after it leaked nearly 300,000 emails from the AK Party dating from 2010 to July 6 this year, Reuters reports.

Obtained before the attempted coup, the date of their publication was brought forward "in response to the government's post-coup purges", WikiLeaks said on its website.

The source of the emails was not connected to the coup plotters or to a rival political party or state, WikiLeaks said.