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Turkish NBA player Kanter met with refugees in Athens at AEK event

Kanter has been an outspoken critic of Erdogan

Newsroom October 19 05:31

The Turkish NBA basketball star Enes Kanter, who has been expelled from Turkey because of his vocal stance against the Erdogan government, is once again in Greece.

Kanter, who will meet with the president of PASOK, Nikos Androulakis, was at the AEK stadium in Ano Liosia to meet Turkish refugees living in Greece.

 

Η ΑΕΚ BC φιλοξενεί τον Ενές Καντέρ σε εκδήλωση, που διοργάνωσε για τους Τούρκους πρόσφυγες, ο σταρ του ΝΒΑ στα Άνω Λιόσια ?

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In fact, the message he wrote on his T-shirt made a sensation. He was wearing a black T-shirt with the flags of Greece and Turkey and the words “We are family”.

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