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Eddie Du

21 Oct, 17 tweets, 4 min read

» China wipes Boston Celtics from NBA broadcasts after Enes Kanter slams Tibet abuses - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/…

Back in 2016, Kanter cut ties with his Turkish family over his support for Pennsylvania-based preacher Fethullah Gulen.
bbc.com/news/world-us-…

Kanter's father, Mehmet, disowned his son in a letter published by Sabah, a pro-government newspaper.

Mehmet Kanter wrote his son had been "hypnotized" by the Gulen movement.

Kanter was born in Switzerland to Turkish parents and raised in Turkey, but his outspokenness has now transformed him into persona non grata in the country.
vox.com/world/2019/11/…

In 2020, his father was acquitted of charges that he was a member of a terrorist group.
reuters.com/article/us-tur…

Enes describes himself as a close ally of Gulen. Turkey revoked Kanter’s passport in 2017 and he has since been unable to travel abroad. Mehmet Kanter was fired from his faculty position at Istanbul University and initially jailed for five days.

Gulen has been accused by Erdogan of orchestrating the 2016 failed coup, a charge he has repeatedly denied.
edition.cnn.com/2020/04/02/spo…

Two of Kanter's vocal supporters in Washington include Democratic senators Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts and Ron Wyden of Oregon, who introduced human rights legislation aimed at Turkey.

Kanter first met Gulen in 2013, but said he had been attending Gulen schools in Turkey since the second grade.

Tencent pulled off all live-streaming for upcoming Celtics games, leaving confused fans wondering why in the comment section of its sports page. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Kanter was “grandstanding” to “draw eyeballs,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference in Beijing on Thursday, without mentioning the NBA.

One Chinese influencer, who has more than 614,000 followers on Weibo and posts regularly about the Celtics, said “We resolutely boycott any behavior that will undermine ethnic harmony and the motherland’s dignity.”

It seems that searches for Kanter's Chinese name 坎特 have been blocked on Weibo.

News articles have also been censored,
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Zhihu

Kanter's remarks came on the day the Olympic torch arrived in Beijing in preparation for the 2022 Olympic Games,
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Many politicians in the West are trying to ruin the party,
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