Tufts PhD student on visa arrested by immigration authorities, school says. Rumeysa Ozturk is a Turkish national, according to her lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai. By Luke Barr. March 26, 2025, 11:12 PM.

Ozturk was detained by US Immigration officials on March 25, 2025 X/Daniel Boguslaw. Ozturk’s op-ed in Tufts’ student newspaper criticized the university’s response to anti-Israel protests ...

Local News ICE responds to judge’s order as Tufts gives update on detained student Rumeysa Ozturk is now being detained in Louisiana. A judge had ordered ICE not to relocate her without 48 hours ...

Tufts University is calling for grad student Rumeysa Ozturk to be “released without delay” after ICE agents grabbed her off a Somerville street.

The evening of March 25, federal immigration officials detained Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk — a move widely suggested to have been a response to an op-ed she co-wrote for the student paper, The Tufts ...

Tufts’s main campus is in Medford, Mass., a small city seven miles northwest of Boston and adjacent to Somerville, where the student was detained. Zolan Kanno-Youngs contributed reporting.

NPR speaks with Ramzi Kassem, a member of the legal team for Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk, about her detention and arguments in her immigration hearing.

Protesters in Powder House Square hold signs in support Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was arrested by immigration officials despite having a valid student visa.

Federal judge in Boston to hold hearing today on detained Tufts student 01:42. Tufts University has issued a declaration of support for international graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was taken ...

Tufts student detained by ICE said she thought officers "were going to kill me" in new court filing 00:38. A doctoral student from Tufts University is detailing how she was detained by ICE just ...