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Turkey and Galatasaray legend Hakan Sukur has revealed he is now an Uber driver in the United States and sells books for a living after being exiled from his home country by president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Sukur retired from football in 2008 and joined Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2011. He served as an MP in Istanbul for four years, but in 2013 he left the AKP to serve as an independent.
The former striker told Welt am Sonntag's Matthias Marburg (h/t Goal's Sam France):
"Then the hostility started.