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Tim Reynolds: Omer Yurtseven will appear at and host a fundraising event for earthquake victims from Turkey and Syria tomorrow. Details here … instagram.com/p/CogUo6eLZx7/… @OmerYurtseven5
Enes FREEDOM: Hypocrites! I see @Celtics coaching staff wearing Ukrainian flag pins, which I support What about Syria,Afghanistan,Uyghurs, Hong Kong,Tibet,Taiwan Why is it okay to speak up about human rights violations there but not in other countries? Is there not much profit from Russia?
Hypocrites!
— Enes Kanter FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) March 6, 2022
I see @Celtics coaching staff wearing Ukrainian flag pins, which I support
What about Syria,Afghanistan,Uyghurs, Hong Kong,Tibet,Taiwan
Why is it okay to speak up about human rights violations there but not in other countries?
Is there not much profit from Russia? pic.twitter.com/yhcmS3pefT
Jusuf Nurkic: Idlib in Syria today, dozens dead and over a hundred wounded. 🥺💔 But they are Muslims. So that’s not news. #StopTheWars #Syria 🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/tWFgHbLgVC
Royce Young: Steven Adams on living in the bubble: "Let's be clear: This is not Syria. It's not that hard ... We're living at a bloody resort. Everyone is going to complain, everyone has their own preferences, nothing too serious. Just a bit of dry food here and there."
Turkish NBA player Enes Kanter on Tuesday strongly condemned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the operation he launched against Kurdish forces in northern Syria. "(Erdogan) has no respect for human rights," the Boston Celtics center said in an interview with CNN. "There is no democracy. There is no freedom of speech, religion or expression in Turkey. "He's definitely a very bad man," Kanter said of Erdogan. "I called him the Hitler of our century for a reason."
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I was hoping that he tricked his supporters in order to do what's right once he made it into the oval office. So I sat back once again to watch and see what he would do when he was finally inaugurated. And in his first 11 days he proved to me once again that his political views, policies and beliefs are entirely different from mine and the platform he ran on in the election was truly his plan for America. He proved this with his appointments of advisors and cabinet members, his executive order basically banning immigrants from certain Muslim countries and Syrian refugees from entering into the U.S., along with his stance on defunding Planned Parenthood. After all that has been done, I am fearful and hopeful.
Walker left in June 2011 as the only N.B.A. player to have graced the courts in Syria, where he said he scored “at least” 16 points in his final game in the Syrian basketball league, a few weeks before he returned to Los Angeles. It was the championship final against Al Geish (“The Army”) from Damascus. “I remember it being a collective team effort, we had some guys who really stepped up that game,” Walker said, with nostalgia in his voice. “The other team did a really good job of doubling on me and there were guys on my team who understood that it wasn’t just the Samaki Walker show.”
A security detail has accompanied the group throughout their travels to Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, a restaurant near the northern border with Syria and Lebanon, the Holocaust Museum, and a basketball clinic for Israeli and Palestinian youngsters. The itinerary includes another youth clinic and a breakfast meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We were a little nervous about going to Jerusalem,” Casspi said by phone early Tuesday morning, “but we had a great time. Thousands of people followed us when we walked around the Wall and the shops. DeMarcus was like a rock star. Everybody wanted to be around him.”
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The Oklahoma City Thunder will travel to Turkey as scheduled this week for its preseason opener despite the country's ongoing violence and the highly publicized crisis in neighboring Syria. Concerns over the safety of players, coaches and team and league personnel raised questions recently about whether the first leg of the Thunder's two-game European tour would be canceled. But the Thunder is scheduled to depart for Istanbul on Wednesday, with the team left to trust that the NBA-mandated trip will be as secure as any other road game.
Pau Gasol: It's devastating what continues to happen in #Syria. Enough is enough. The people of Syria, and their children, need to be protected.
According to UNICEF, more than 1.7 million Syrians have fled their war-torn native country, with approximately 160,000 settling in Iraq. Gasol said he was deeply moved by the sense of unrest and fear he encountered while visiting a camp in Dohuk that was meant to hold 15,000 refugees but was crowded with some 50,000 inhabitants.
“It’s difficult because all of these people had good lives back in Syria,” Gasol told ESPNLosAngeles.com in a phone interview last week. “So, it’s a unique situation from what I’ve experienced with UNICEF because these people had a good life and now they had to leave their homes because they didn’t want to get killed, basically. They had no choice. They’re educated, but they’re just frustrated. We talked to several families there, children, to tell us a little bit about what they went through. All of them left because of the war. Some of the children witnessed people dead on the street. Tanks. Shootings. Their school got destroyed by a bomb. Their (family) businesses also got destroyed by attacks. So, they all had a traumatic experience to share.”
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