NBA star fighting anti-Semitism and Erdogan Israel today

Anas Kanter sharply criticized the Turkish president and forced to leave the country • The actor met with Ambassador Arden and tweeted: "Working together to create a better future"

• "It was important to me to enlist to help him with everything I could"

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  Israeli delegation to the UN

Enes Kanter has become one of the best-known basketball players in the NBA.

He played this season for the Boston Celtics and earned star status in the U.S. Alongside his great success, Anas is one of Turkish President Erdogan's most ardent critics, forcing him to move from Turkey and lose touch with his parents and family.

Due to his support for Erdogan's main political rival, Fethullah Golan, Anas was defined by the Turkish authorities as a member of a terrorist organization and forced to leave his country.

Turkey has also tried to issue an international arrest warrant against him, which is preventing him at this point from leaving the US borders and participating in basketball games around the world.

Since arriving in the US, Anes has become a successful player who previously played for the New York Knicks and today for the Boston Celtics, and he has continued to speak out publicly against Erdogan's actions and even recently stepped up his activities to raise global awareness of what happened in Turkey. And a Muslim in order to promote tolerance and coexistence and came out against manifestations of anti-Semitism.

Had an amazing conversation with my good friend @ giladerdan1

Working together to create a better, brighter, more peaceful future.

It's all about respect, understand and building bridges together.

Better together pic.twitter.com/a6JFOxnp5Y

- Enes Kanter (@EnesKanter) November 17, 2020

Israel's ambassador to the UN, Gilad Ardan, heard about Canter's personal story and invited him to his home for an exciting evening where the two discussed the fight against hatred and anti-Semitism. Arden offered the player to help found the project in Israel To the fight against anti-Semitism that he leads.

"Erdogan prefers to support and embrace Hamas operatives rather than support athletes who work for human rights. It was important to me to hear Mans tell his personal story and mobilize to help him in anything I can," Arden said.

"I grew up in a society that called on us to hate Jews and I did not know why," Rape told the Israeli ambassador.

"Later I realized that what's important is to build bridges and create dialogue between people, and that's my goal."

After the meeting, the actor tweeted the picture with Arden to his hundreds of thousands of followers and wrote: "Working together to create a better future."