Rumeysa Ozturk, Tufts Student Held in Immigration Detention, Returns to Turkey
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Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk returned to Turkey after being held in immigration detention by the Trump administration.
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Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk has returned to Turkey after being held for weeks in immigration detention by the Trump administration. Ozturk's detention followed her co-authorship of a pro-Palestinian opinion essay. She has since graduated from Tufts University. This development concludes a period of federal immigration custody that drew attention to the treatment of students expressing political views.
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