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Report: Turkey Seeks Arrest Warrant For Knicks Center Enes Kanter

Prosecutors in Turkey are seeking an arrest warrant and extraditionu200b of New York Knicks center Enes Kanter, accusing him of being a member in a terror organization with links to a cleric who tried to overthrow the government.

Reuters reports the state-owned Anadolu news agency in Turkey said that the country's officials tried to issue “red notice," which alerts Interpol to locate and arrest any person that has extradition orders pending.

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Kanter had his Turkish passport was revoked in 2017 bscause of his support for Fethullah Gulen, the cleric reportedly behind the coup attempt.