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Turkey seeks long-term jail sentence for NBA star who called President Erdogan a 'dictator'
REPORTS in Turkey claimed yesterday that prosecutors are seeking more than four years in prison for NBA player Enes Kanter on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
An indictment prepared by the Istanbul chief prosecutor’s office accuses the New York Knicks player of insulting the president in a series of tweets he posted in May and June 2016.
Kanter, who is in the United States, would be tried in absentia.
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