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Wikileaks statement:

"@Sulliview @TheWorldPost Please issue a correction. The story is a fabrication. WikiLeaks did not publish the databases concerned"

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/757940726198042624

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Wikileaks is also smearing the author, calling her an Erdogan apologist who is working from Turkey. In fact, she is affiliated with Harvard and the University of North Carolina and is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, and certainly doesn't seem to be an Erdogan apologist. Wikileaks also blocked the author on Twitter, where they continue to defame her.

The attachments have excel files which are effectively databases since they contain the addresses and phone numbers of private citizens (i.e. not members of the Turkish govt).

To see the corrections made to the article to reflect this information, see the following link.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160726000303/https://trln7wscq...

{+This blog has been updated to reflect that WikiLeaks promoted links to the+} {+databases via its social media accounts but did not host those databases on its+} {+own site.+}

So they tweeted / or retweeted it essentially?

yes, the tweet is still live: (but the linked url is taken down so I don't see any reason not to share this tweet)

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/756147693802643456

I think the misunderstanding (if there is any) is that they share this link by calling it 'theirs'. So I suppose that would be the reason the author was referring to them.

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