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Enes Kanter will not play for Turkish national team, reasons unclear

Everyone loses, except maybe injury-wary Thunder fans.

Enes Kanter will not be joining the Turkish national team for this September's Eurobasket.

But that's all we can say for certain. The reasons as to why are very unclear. Both Kanter and the Turkish national team have different versions of the story.

According to Kanter, the national team literally never invited him. Kanter has expessed a desire to return to the national team, and claims that his connection to the Gülen movement motivated his exclusion from the team. The Gülen/Hizmet movement, according to Wikipedia, is a, "transnational religious and social movement led by Turkish Islamic scholar and preacher Fethullah Gülen.