A New York basketball player will not travel to London for an upcoming international game because he believes he could be assassinated for his opposition to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A New York basketball player will not travel to London for an upcoming international game because he believes he could be assassinated for his opposition to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Enes Kanter announced his plan on Friday night after the New York Knicks beat the LA Lakers 119-112. “Sadly, I’m not going because of that freaking lunatic, the Turkish president,” Kanter said. It’s pretty sad.”Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Burhan Ozbilici/AP)Kanter has been a vocal critic of President Erdogan for years, once referring to him as “the Hitler of our century”.

Source: Irish Independent January 05, 2019 08:37 UTC