An NBA player who has criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that his father “has been arrested” by the authoritarian leader.

“MY DAD HAS BEEN ARRESTED by Turkish government and the Hitler of our century,” Oklahoma City Thunder center Enes Kanter tweeted Friday (original emphasis). “He is potentially to get tortured as thousand others.”

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