Enes Kanter, a Center for the New York Knicks, has expressed his opinion of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and a Turkish prosecutor has indicted him in absentia for this heinous crime and wants Kantor jailed for four years. Among other things, Kantor has said that Erdogan is the “Hitler of our century,” in the aftermath of the Turkish government’s revocation of his passport and its having forced his father, still in Turkey, to disown him—and then was thrown into jail, anyway. All because Kanter supports the equally Erdogan-hated Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen.
Here’s Kanter:
People don’t understand. They’re saying your family is still back in Turkey — why are you doing all of this? Why are you talking? I’m just trying to be the voice of all of these innocent people, man. Because all of these innocent people are just going through really tough times. Journalists, innocent people in jail getting tortured and killed and kidnapped. And it’s pretty messed up. And (the government) hates it. They hate when I talk to you guys in front of all of these cameras, these microphones. They hate it. That’s why they’re saying, “Oh, we’re going to take his dad away, we’re going to put him in prison.”
In response to the indictment and jail threat, here’s Kanter again:
That’s it? Only four years? All the trash I’ve been talking?
I have said less than that honorless (man) deserves. Add another 4 years for me, master.
Here’s to Enes Kanter.
Oh, and I say that Recep Tayyip Erdogan is an idiot and a tin despot.