Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University student who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last year, has completed her Ph.D. program and is returning to her home country of Turkey, her lawyers announced Friday. Öztürk was detained by ICE in 2025 after she co-authored an opinion piece for the student newspaper criticizing her school’s response to the…
Tufts student detained by ICE returns to Turkey
Originally reported by The Hill
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