Police in Istanbul detained four people Feb 14 on the orders of a prosecutor investigating in the case over what is known as the Ergenekon, an alleged criminal network in Turkey with ties to bureaucracy and military.

Weekly writer of the daily Hurriyet, Soner Yalcin was among the four people detained for being a "member of the Ergenekon terrorist organization and for inciting hatred and enmity." Police searched a two-storey building used as the headquarters of an Internet site at "odatv.com" as well as houses of the detainees, the three of whom were reportedly the administrators of the Internet site, Hurriyet reported.