WASHINGTON, D.C.
The U.S. State Department has released around 3,000 emails of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in compliance with a court order, some of which also include correspondence with a senior Turkish official.
The step came late Tuesday as a U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras ordered the State Department to release the emails from Clinton's private account every 30 days. The last batch of emails will be released in January 2016.
The batch of emails released Tuesday included those sent between March and December 2009 during Clinton’s first year as state secretary.
Most of the shared emails were about daily routine activities, including phone calls with foreign officials.
There were also some emails categorized as "Davu", which referred to current Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who was at that time Turkey’s foreign minister. Those emails were about protocols signed between Turkey and Armenia in 2009 as a part of the normalization process between the two countries.
In the emails, Clinton had asked the Turkish and Armenian top diplomats to call each other to discuss the normalization process.
The controversy over Clinton's State Department emails erupted since it was revealed that she had used a private email server to conduct governmental correspondence.
Critics have claimed that the veteran top diplomat used the private account to avoid transparency and scrutiny.
The U.S. State Department shared 300 emails of Clinton related to 2012 Benghazi attack when five U.S. personnel, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya was killed.
