ANKARA: The father of NBA center Enes Kanter, an outspoken critic of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's human rights record, has been acquitted of ...
ANKARA: The father of NBA center Enes Kanter, an outspoken critic of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's human rights record, has been acquitted of charges that he was a member of a terrorist group, Turkish media reported on Friday.
Mehmet Kanter, the father and a genetics professor in Turkey, was alleged to have supported U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen who Turkey accuses of orchestrating a failed coup in 2016. Gulen denies any connection with the matter.Enes Kanter, a 28-year-old center for the Boston Celtics in the U.S. National Basketball Association, was indicted in Turkey in 2018 on charges of belonging to an armed terrorist group, which he denies. He is awaiting U.S. citizenship.
Enes Kanter, who has lived mainly in the United States for more than a decade, describes himself as a close ally of Gulen. Thousands of Gulen's followers were arrested or fired from their jobs in Turkey after the abortive coup.Mehmet Kanter was fired from his faculty position at Istanbul University and initially jailed for five days, Birgun newspaper reported. He was acquitted on Thursday by a court in northwestern Turkey, the newspaper and other media reported.
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