Kanter is a fugitive in Turkey who faces a four-year prison sentence if he ever returns to his home country. He has been charged with insulting Erdogan, whom Kanter has called, among other things, “the Hitler of our time” for suppressing human rights. Kanter has said his games are blacked out in Turkey and companies like Nike won’t sign him for endorsements out of fear its product would be outlawed in his home country.