NBA player goes one-on-one with Turkish strongman Erdogan

Shoot a three-pointer, go to jail.

If Turkey's spoilsport president gets his way, he will soon be locking up Enes Kanter, a Turkish star center for the New York Knicks.

The reason for a just-requested Interpol "Red Notice" arrest warrant is not Kanter's aggressive defensive style, but rather his offensive speech, calling Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, among other things, the "Hitler of our century." Erdogan returned the favor and labeled Kanter "a terrorist."

Unlike in the United States, where public figures can't be libeled, criticism of the Turkish president is illegal. I can write that President Donald Trump is a boob and feel pretty secure that the black helicopters won't descend on my home. Well, maybe not totally secure as the US attorney general nominee William Barr recently told the Senate that he "can conceive" of instances where...