NBA Player Enes Kanter Isn't Intimidated by Erdoğan (HBO)
Posted
June 29, 2017
Views
44,951
Likes
766
Comments
146
Engagement
2.03%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
YouTube Description
as posted by the channelAfter the failed military coup in Turkey last summer, which left at least 249 dead, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has tried to silence his opposition — largely by putting them in jail. Over the past year, the Turkish government has detained more than 100,000 people. Erdoğan’s government has accused many of these prisoners of being followers of religious leader Fethullah Gulen, the man he blames for organizing the coup.
The crackdown has sparked rampant fear among Erdoğan’s critics. But in the United States, it has inspired one follower of Gulen to become a new and unlikely voice of dissent: a 6-foot-11 25-year-old with a $70 million NBA contract.
VICE News invited Enes Kanter over for dinner to talk about his fight with Turkey’s president — and play a basketball video game.
Subscribe to VICE News here
Check out VICE News for more
Follow VICE News here:
More videos from the VICE network
Guests & Subjects Covered
President Recep Tayyip ErdoanFethullah GulenUnited StatesEnes KanterFollow VICE News
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.