Professor Henri Barkey, of Lehigh University's International Relations Department, was among those accused of plotting a coup in Turkey in July 2016. Barkey, who was in Turkey for a conference at the time of the coup, was suspected of abetting FETO, the Turkish terrorist group allegedly responsible for attempting to overthrow the government.
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As of July 15, 2017, the Chief Public Prosecutors Office in Istanbul launched a new probe into seventeen American citizens including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Former CIA Director John Brennan, and Henri Barkey. Turkey is reopening the investigation to see if a link can be drawn from the suspects to FETO. This investigation comes in conjunction with a referendum that provided the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, with more expansive control of the government.