Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images(OKLAHOMA CITY) — Oklahoma City Thunder forward Enes Kanter has received numerous death threats on Twitter, he says, following last week’s attempted military coup in his home country.
The 24-year-old posted screenshots of the threats, which are written in Turkish. “Death threats continue to fall,” he wrote himself in Turkish, “prayer does not stand still.”
Last Friday, members of the military attempted to overthrow Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
In March, following a terrorist attack in Ankara, Kanter spoke out against Erdogan’s government. He criticized the country’s blocked access to social media and limited broadcast media coverage of the attack that killed 37 and left more than 100 injured.
Last June, Kanter claimed he was left off of the national basketball team for a European competition because of his politics, a claim that was denied by the team’s coach.
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