OT Enes Kanterr might not play another NBA game if his Country's leader has any say!!!

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba...-its-so-serious/ss-BBBkwEi?li=BBnb7Kz#image=3


He has been one of the most vocal about his countries leader and they have now locked him down at an airport...

 

This is actually probably a good thing. If there's one thing that will get America to take notice of the shit that Erdogan is pulling it's if he fucks with an expensive sports star.

 

I'ms surprised he went back to Turkey. Fuck that. I'd never go back if I was a wealthy star and there was a dictatorship.

 

Yep, and in the end, Kanter will most likely be back in the States before too long. He is being detained in Romania, not Turkey. He is being detained because his Turkish passport was revoked without warning or reason. Romania is an EU country, but not part of the passport free Schengen Area. So, it will require some diplomatic maneuvering to get him out of Romania and back to the states, but I'm sure with such a highly visible story, someone will step up and get it done.

With Kanter's status comes privilege. If he was just a student or teacher who had been targeted by the Ergodan regime, he'd be deported to Turkey and sent to prison, or worse.

BNM

 

He didn't. He's being detained in Romania for not having a valid passport. His Turkish passport was revoked due to his open criticism of the Gulen regime.

It makes me wonder if Kanter did this on purpose to raise visibility about the human rights violations Ergodan is perpetrating on the citizens of his country.

BNM

 

Kind of a risky gamble. Not sure I'd want to play with my own life like that. Especially considering that there has been some evidence that Erdogan ordered his goons to attack the protesters in DC this week.

 

Definitely a risky gamble. Just speaking out against Ergodan comes with risk. Kanter's own family has disowned him, but it's likely they did so out of fear they would be targeted by the Ergodan regime.

Say what you want about Kanter the basketball player, but he's using his position, and putting himself at risk, to try to right the wrongs that are being done in his homeland.

BNM

 

He's got money.... time to raise a mercenary army and take back his homeland!

 

Neil Olshey, by forcing OKC to match that offer sheet, was indirectly funding a revolution!

BNM

 

Shortest revolution EVER!

Thunder's Enes Kanter in London after being denied entry to Romania

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Sounds like 80's Solder of Fortune movie with Gene Hackman, Powers Boothe And Tom Berenger. Disillusioned Reagan-era Mercs go into a war zone and try to stop genocide with mass LAW rocket explosions. Raul Julia plays Turkish despot.

 

So, he was basically denied entry to Romania and allowed to roam around the airport for four hours and post goofy selfies on twitter. Such an ordeal! Kinda makes the original thread title look a little silly.

I've had longer delays at the DEN airport. So, did Tom Hanks in The Terminal.

"Today at around 1 p.m. local time an individual arrived from Frankfurt," Romanian border police spokesman Fabian Badila told the Times. "My colleagues established that his travel documents weren't valid, that they had been canceled by his home country, so he wasn't allowed to enter the country.

"At around 5 p.m., he left the airport on a flight to London," Badila added. "While he was at the airport he wasn't detained or locked up, he was allowed to wander around, but he couldn't enter the country."



BNM

 

well, I was just going off what the article was articulating in so many words, saying this isn't a paperwork issue and this is a huge deal, etc...

Dammit!!! And I thought I actually broke some relevant news and was gonna be the next S2 Woj!!!

 

Hey. They don't have Turkish coffee in that airport! He had to make do with rich bodied regular coffee! That's a international incident!

 

Oh the humanity!

Although, if you look at the background in that photo, they look to have a pretty good selection of bottled beers. All is not lost!

BNM

 

Your mind works differently than mine. Very differently.

I think it's an age thing. When I was young enough to be in a fraternity, the technology didn't exit to take a digital image and post it online. You had to pull out your trusty 35mm Nikon, take some photos, run to the darkroom in the basement of one of the dorms, develop your roll of Tri-X, print a stack of 8x10s and post them on bulletin boards around campus. It literally took most of the night. You really had to be dedicated. Senseless pranks were a lot more work back then.

BNM

 

J was on staff of the school paper. That sure helped.

 

Yep, so was I. Unlimited Tri-X (as long as we loaded our own) and unfettered darkroom access at all hours.

BNM

 

Apparently Erdigan's thugs have diplomatic immunity to attack and beat the shit out of American citizens. What's next: Diplomatic immunity to mount an invasion?