Erdoğan Is Getting Desperate
Turkey’s regime put a bounty on my head. We’re not ready for what it might do next.
When I learned last month that Turkey had placed a $500,000 bounty on my head, part of me was flattered.
Turkey has targeted me for years because I have used my platform as a professional basketball player to denounce its strongman, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. His regime has revoked my passport, filed 12 lawsuits against me, and put my name on Interpol’s “Red Notice” list. It has come after my family too. The government raided my home in Turkey and imprisoned my father. It also seems to have gotten my brother fired from his basketball team and prevented my
