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Tufts Grad Detained for Six Weeks Amid Campus Speech Crackdown

4/17/2026

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Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University graduate student, was arrested in March 2025 during the campus-speech crackdown under U.S. President Donald Trump.
She was detained by armed immigration agents for six weeks.
She returned to Turkey after the detention.
Authorities described the detention as part of a strategy against campus antisemitism.
A federal judge previously ruled against deportation.

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Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University graduate student, was arrested in March 2025 during the campus-speech crackdown under U.S. President Donald Trump.
She was detained by armed immigration agents for six weeks.
She returned to Turkey after the detention.
Authorities described the detention as part of a strategy against campus antisemitism.
A federal judge previously ruled against deportation.