Turkey Investigating 17, Some Americans, Accused in Failed Coup<br />chief; Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York; Preet Bharara, the former United States attorney for the Southern District of New York;<br />and David Cohen, the head of the Office of Foreign Assets Control, according to the Anadolu Agency, a state-run news wire.<br />The investigation may also be a tit-for-tat response to the recent arrest in New York of an executive from a state-owned Turkish bank,<br />according to Henri J. Barkey, the director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.<br />The investigation may also be a reflection of Turkey’s dwindling hopes of involvement in the<br />American-led campaign to take Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State, analysts said.<br />By PATRICK KINGSLEYAPRIL 15, 2017<br />ISTANBUL — A Turkish prosecutor has opened an investigation into 17 people accused of fomenting last year’s failed coup, including many prominent American officials, academics<br />and politicians, state news media reported on Saturday.<br />The accusations against the Americans might have been launched with similar intentions, said Soner Cagaptay,<br />the author of a coming biography of Mr. Erdogan, "The New Sultan." "The ‘yes’ camp still doesn’t feel safe.<br />Mr. Barkey said that It’s partly: You’re arresting our people, we can do the same to you,<br />Mr. Bharara, who was ousted from office last month by the Trump administration, had opened an<br />investigation into Reza Zarrab, a wealthy Turkish trader with connections to Mr. Erdogan.
