Enes Kanter's battle against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued with an op-ed piece he wrote in The Washington Post on Tuesday, where the New York Knicks big man discussed why he didn't travel to London for his team's game against the Washington Wizards on Thursday for fear of his life:

“On Thursday, I won’t be able to go to work when my team, the New York Knicks, plays the Washington Wizards in London,” wrote Enes Kanter. “It is altogether too risky. Erdogan uses Interpol, the international law-enforcement organization with 194 member nations, as a tool for having his critics arrested in other countries. I do not yet have U.S. citizenship, or a U.S. passport, which could offer me protection, so I can’t risk traveling overseas.”

Kanter added that even if he did have U.S. citizenship or a passport, he still would not risk making the journey to Europe:

“Even if I did, I wouldn’t travel this week to Britain, where I easily could be kidnapped or killed by Turkish agents,” he said. “Erdogan’s arms are long. He hunts down anyone who opposes him. In 2017, his security team — or thugs, as The Post’s editorial board described them — even beat up peaceful protesters outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington.”

The 26-year-old went on to describe a 2017 trip to Indonesia, in which Kanter was forced to flee the country after hearing that Indonesian police were searching for him because the country was informed by Turkey that Kanter was considered a “dangerous” person:

“May 20, 2017, was one of the scariest days of my life,” he wrote. “It was the day I realized I was being hunted by Erdogan. I was in Indonesia to run a children’s basketball camp for my charity. I was awakened in the middle of the night by knocking on my door. My manager said the Indonesian police were searching for me because the Turkish government had told them I was dangerous. We rushed to the airport and got on the next flight out of the country.”

That was when Kanter was then detained in a Romanian airport because Turkey had canceled his Turkish passport. However, Kanter was eventually able to make it back to the United States.