Turkey has put a $500,000 Bounty on Enes Kanter

[Lebron23]

Former #NBA center Enes Kanter Freedom has had a bounty put out on him by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government worth up to 10 million Turkish lira, or about $500,000, for information leading to his capture.

Freedom is on the country’s 2023 most-wanted terrorists list as he has been famously outspoken regarding Turkey’s human rights abuses through Erdogan’s government. He told the New York Post that he found out about the bounty a week ago.

"Before the bounty, Turkish intelligence were after the people on the list, but now everyone is after them because they want the money," Freedom told the Post.

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[FultzNationRISE]

pEnes.

[bison]

That 500 grand is mine, boyos :rockon:

[HoopologyPhD]

More than he'll get from an NBA team, he should turn himself in.

[iamgine]

Has any NBA players publicly support him?

[CurryOverLebron]

https://www.vox.com/world/2019/11/13/20941804/enes-kanter-nba-turkey-erdogan

It’s personal for Kanter, as he and his family have been singled out by the Turkish government. But his story is also part of a larger crisis unfolding in Turkey, where, after a 2016 failed coup that tried to remove him from office, Erdoğan has consolidated power and purged perceived political opponents in the judiciary, police, and public sectors, jailing tens of thousands of civil servants, journalists, and other dissidents.

Kanter began playing professional basketball in the United States in 2011. That same year, he played for the Turkish national team in the 2011 Eurobasket, where Kanter recalls briefly meeting Erdoğan. There’s a picture out there somewhere, Kanter said, of him shaking the leader’s hand.

Erdoğan was prime minister at the time, a position that was abolished by a 2017 referendum that consolidated almost all power in the Turkish president, who was by that time, Erdoğan.

It is one of the clearest examples of Erdoğan’s authoritarian streak, which has only grown more potent since a July 2016 failed coup attempt.

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Has any NBA players publicly support him?

Not that I've seen. Bunch of spineless betas.