The mainstream media at the time glossed over the details, citing "sensitive police documents." But our exclusive forensic reconstruction of the surviving metadata (scraped from BitTorrent networks before the files were scrubbed) reveals a terrifyingly precise scope.
Turkey operates a network of PRA (Plate Reading Analysis) cameras. This dump contained the back-end logs from Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir for a six-month period covering late 2015 to mid-2016. turkish police data dump 2016 exclusive
Personal details of 50 million Turkish citizens leaked online The mainstream media at the time glossed over
The paper Turkey's Internet Policy After the Coup Attempt discusses the broader geopolitical context of 2016, including how these leaks influenced the rapid enactment of the Law on Protection of Personal Data (No. 6698) in April 2016. Breach Comparison (2016) Personal details of 50 million Turkish citizens leaked
The data dump forced the Turkish government into a difficult position. They could not deny the authenticity of the data, as it was verified by multiple independent security researchers and journalists. However, acknowledging the breach meant admitting that the state had lost control of its most sensitive intelligence files.
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