Charges against Dr Mehmet Kanter were reportedly dropped by a Turkish court on Thursday
The father of the NBA player Enes Kanter, an outspoken critic of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been acquitted of terrorism charges, the basketball star has said.
Charges against Dr Mehmet Kanter, a former genetics professor at Istanbul University, were dropped on Thursday by a court in north-western Tekirdağ province, local media said on Friday. There was no immediate statement from the court on why he had been cleared.
