By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Via a hand-written letter, Enes Kanter’s father, Mehmet Kanter made known that he and his family have disowned the Oklahoma Thunder center.
The reasons behind this, as stated in the letter, have to do with Enes Kanter’s political beliefs and his tweets criticizing Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The player’s Twitter account has been withheld in Turkey.
Kanter is also one of the most famous and highly vocal supporters of exiled Turkish preacher and former imam Fethullah Gulen. Gulen has been accused by Erdogan for being the man responsible of orchestrating the recent failed coup attempt in the country.
Here is a part of Mehmet Kanter’s letter:
“I warned Enes before but he didn’t stop writing tweets against our president and the Turkish nation. As Kanter family, we didn’t support his disrespectful sayings. Me and the Kanter family are disowning Enes. “We want him to change his surname immediately. We want to say sorry to our president and to the Turkish nation for having a son like that.”
