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TURKISH NBA star Enes Kanter will not travel to London with the New York Knicks this month because he believes he could be assassinated for his opposition to authoritarian Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Kanter will stay in New York while his team face the Washington Wizards at the O2 Arena on January 17. The Knicks centre said he can’t travel anywhere except the United States and Canada because “there’s a chance I could get killed out there.”
Meanwhile, the New York Times reported that officials at the Turkish embassy in Washington dismissed Kanter’s comments as baseless.
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