How foreign authoritarian rule reaches into the U.S.
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The U.S. government says it foiled a plot by the Indian government to assassinate one of its citizens who was living in the United States. It's called transnational repression, and the FBI says it's a growing problem. Enes Kanter Freedom, Yana Gorokhovskaia and Roman Rozhavsky join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Meghna here with a small request before today's episode. |
| 0:03.4 | We really appreciate that you listen to the Onpoint podcast, but we'd like to know a little bit more |
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| 0:22.0 | Now, on with today's show. |
| 0:24.4 | This is on point. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm Mejacach Robardi. |
| 0:28.1 | Ennis Cantor Freedom starts our show today. |
| 0:31.1 | He's a Turkish-American professional basketball player who spent |
| 0:34.4 | more than a decade in the NBA. He was drafted third overall in 2011 and went to the |
| 0:40.6 | Utah Jazz. From there his career as center took him to the Oklahoma City Thunder, |
| 0:45.8 | New York Knicks, Portland Trail Blazers, and the Boston Celtics. So in the United States, |
| 0:52.1 | Ennis Cantor Freedom is a star, but in Turkey he's a wanted man and considered |
| 0:59.6 | a terrorist by the Turkish government, which is why the Turkish government has put a half |
| 1:04.2 | million dollar bounty on his head and Ennis Cantor freedom joins us now welcome |
| 1:09.8 | to on point. Thank you for having me. Now we can't disclose the location that you're |
| 1:14.4 | joining us from because of a danger that you're under regarding the bounty |
| 1:19.2 | that's been put on your head. Why does the Turkish government consider you to be such a dangerous |
| 1:24.0 | person? Well I mean they declare me as a terrorist just because of why talk about the |
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