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The Case of Enes Kanter
📻 Episode #197
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 May 05, 2021
About This Episode
An NBA center speaks truth to power in his native Turkey, drawing the ire of the authoritarian regime who exacted their revenge on his father, Dr Mehmet Kanter.
The Case
An NBA center speaks truth to power in his native Turkey, drawing the ire of the authoritarian regime who exacted their revenge on his father, Dr Mehmet Kanter.
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00:03:52“Speaker 1: leaving a varying religious and ethnic identity in its wake. Speaker 1: Just before World War One, a coup brought about a Speaker 1: constitutional democracy that saw to unite the diverse population under Speaker 1: one national Turkish identity. This assertive secularism was problematic for Speaker 1: the many faithful, who saw their religious identity shunned in public.”
00:15:31“Speaker 2: went to medical school for six years. She still cannot Speaker 2: find a job. My little brother was playing basketball, and Speaker 2: you know, he wanted to be an NBA player, but Speaker 2: he was literally getting kicked out in every team because Speaker 2: of the same last name. So they were getting affected”
00:25:41“Speaker 2: of jails and in a lot of Turkish courts for Speaker 2: years and years, right, so they were so scared of Speaker 2: what I was like saying, they banned my Twitter account Speaker 2: and Turkey. So if you go to Turkey right now Speaker 2: and try to check what I twiteter or anything, you”
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