Weapons seized in Trabzon maybe linked to Turkey's Ergenekon

Four people were taken in for questioning Saturday after nine hand grenades and a cache of guns were discovered during simultaneous police operations conducted on five locations in central Trabzon and the nearby village of Yomra.

Trabzon Governor Nuri Okutan said questions have been raised about a connection to Ergenekon after the discovery of weaponry similar to the original cache of grenades that sparked the start of Turkey’s controversial and ongoing case.

“All possibilities are being considered during the investigation process. Those detained are civilians... A coordinated investigation is also underway in other provinces," Governor Okutan told reporters.

The Ergenekon operation was launched in June 2007 with the discovery of grenades in a house in Istanbul’s Umraniye district. Since then over one hundred people have been detained in nine waves of arrests in the controversial operation, in which the detained are accused of being members of a group that allegedly plotted to overthrow Turkey's Islamist-rooted government.