Kanter not going on the London trip.
UK won't care about any Erdogan Interpol requests.
But Kant is concerned about being kidnapped or assassinated.
Might sound dramatic, but Putin has done such.
And we saw Erdogan security thugs beating up protesters in Washington DC last year.
So why take the risk?
And this after Kant was stripped of his Turkish passport while in Europe last year, with Interpol notices out on him, and had to scramble to get US protection before something bad happened.
I'd be paranoid too. Sometimes paranoia just means that you correctly understand what's going on.
In Turkey, scores of journalists have been jailed, most independent media shuttered, thousands of political prisoners languishing in jail for being suspected Gulen followers. Tens of thousands removed from their jobs and under surveillance. A virtual dictatorship with a democratic facade, like Putin's Russia.