Coup perpetrators plan to spring PKK Leader from prison

A group of 12 Turkish officers, detained in Istanbul for participating in the recent coup attempt, allegedly planned to free Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan from prison, local media reported.

According to the Haberturk broadcaster, during interrogation the officers said they had intended to use inflatable boats to reach the island of Imrali, where Ocalan has been serving a life sentence since 1999, Sputnik reports.