On March 25, 2025, Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk reportedly was apprehended and detained by six masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Somerville ...

Ozturk, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and taupe hijab, appeared virtually for her bail hearing on Friday from inside an all-white room at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center – roughly 1,700 ...

Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University student from Turkey who was pulled off a street by federal agents in Somerville, Massachusetts and spent six weeks in a detention center in Louisiana ...

Rumeysa’s experience is shocking, cruel, and unconstitutional,” Khanbabai said in a statement. Ozturk was enrolled in a PhD program at Tufts University on a valid F-1 visa, which allows ...

Tufts University is calling for grad student Rumeysa Ozturk to be “released without delay,” as the international student’s legal team continues to fight for her release after ICE agents ...

(Jenna Perlman/Globe Staff) Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national, was detained by federal immigration authorities late Tuesday, according to her attorney and activists.

Tufts University has issued a declaration of support for international graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was taken into custody by the Department of Homeland Security last week. Ozturk was ...

Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was seen on surveillance footage on a Somerville street as plainclothes officers approached and handcuffed her. The reason for her detention ...

U.S. District Judge William Sessions in Burlington released Rumeysa Ozturk pending a ... ed in the campus newspaper, The Tufts Daily, last year criticizing the university’s response to student ...