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Enes Kanter ‘can’t remember’ when he last spoke his family in Turkey
BOSTON CELTICS star Enes Kanter can’t remember the last time he spoke to his family, having lost his Turkish citizenship in 2017 for speaking out against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The 2013 tweet saw his dad face jail time in Turkey and his family were forced to release a statement disowning him, just to stay safe.
Kanter has been a vocal critic of Erdogan for years, once referring to him as “the Hitler of our century,” and has been accused of being a follower of Fethullah Gulen, a US-based Islamist Turkish cleric accused by Turkey’s government of masterminding a failed military coup in 2016.
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