Far from complying with these demands, the government instead chose to ban a slew of news outlets and forced Twitter to suspend accounts circulating the leak, the Daily Dot said at the time.

The hackers were threatening to leak the stolen data if the Turkish government failed to set free a number of leftist dissidents. The emails exposed how pro-establishment social media trolls were silencing criticism and targeting any opposition to the government. The leaked data in question is a massive trove of 57,623 emails from the Turkish government dating as far back as 2000, according to The Daily Dot, who obtained a full copy of the stolen messages.

A spokesperson confirmed to IBTimes UK that its cloud service appears to be back online, saying: 'We are pleased to confirm that Dropbox is now available to our users in Turkey again.' Some users in the region have indicated that Dropbox has been restored. Impacted ISPs reportedly included TTNet, UyduNet and Turkcell, although foreign visitors in Turkey would still be able to access the cloud platforms as 'their data is tunnelled to the country of origin.' In its latest Twitter update, Turkey Blocks said that access to Google Drive has since been restored due to the fact it complied with the takedown demands of the government. Additionally, the impacted services included popular developer platform GitHub. This, it said in a blog post, indicated the traffic was being intercepted at a national or internet service provider (ISP) level. Upon analysis, the monitoring group found that both Google Drive and Dropbox services were issuing SSL errors. Turkey's intelligence agency assassinated dissident linked to PKK in London, claims report

Turkey blocks dropbox leaks