NBA player Enes Kanter detained for criticizing Turkish president Erdogan

Published May 20, 2017 3:47pm ET



An NBA player traveling in Europe accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of having him detained in Romania as punishment for criticizing the Erdogan regime.

“We are in Romania and they said they cancelled my passport by [the] Turkish embassy,” Enes Kanter, a center for the Oklahoma City Thunder, said in a video posted on Twitter on Saturday. “The reason behind it is just, of course, my political views and the guy who did it is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey.”

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