{
  "id": 3231038,
  "title": "I once saw Enes Kanter speak truth to power. Now he only punches down | Bryan Armen Graham",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/i-once-saw-enes-kanter-speak-truth-to-power-now-he-only-punches-down",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-25T09:00:54.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/25/enes-kanter-freedom-transgender-wnba-natasha-cloud-trump"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Nearly a decade after I watched him defy Erdoğan at great personal cost, the ex-NBA player is using his hard-won freedom to turn transgender people into a punchline Nine years ago, I watched Enes Kanter ask America to take him in . It was May 2017, inside the National Basketball Players Association’s offices in midtown Manhattan. Kanter had just returned from a frightening detention at Bucharest…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}