I receive death threats every week – NBA star Enes Kanter vows to use platform for change

Boston Celtics star Enes Kanter, left, continues to fight injustices in both the US and Turkey (Mark J. Terrill/AP)
Boston Celtics star Enes Kanter, left, continues to fight injustices in both the US and Turkey (Mark J. Terrill/AP)

Enes Kanter has lost his Turkish citizenship, all contact with his family and receives weekly death threats – all because of a tweet.

When the Boston Celtics star criticised Turkey’s president Recep Erdogan in 2013, his social media post sparked a chain reaction that has left him stateless for three years and saw his father imprisoned.

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