Kanter has been politically energetic for years, criticizing the federal government in Turkey, the place he grew up, which prompted Turkish authorities to seek his arrest. He wrote that in 2017, he needed to flee Indonesia, the place he was holding a basketball camp for youngsters, after his supervisor informed him Turkish intelligence brokers had been despatched to seize him.
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