On Friday (28), a federal judge in Massachusetts prevented the deportation of a Turkish doctoral student at the University of Tafs, which expressed her support for the Palestinians in the Israeli war in Gaza and was detained by the American immigration authorities this week.
Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was held by the American immigration authorities near her home in Massachusetts on Tuesday, a video showing his arrest by masked federal agents.
American authorities Their visa is canceled.
The US Interior Security Ministry accused Ozturk without providing evidence of “participation in Hamas support activities”, a group that the US government classifies as “a foreign terrorist organization”.
Oncu Keceli, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Türkiye, stated that the efforts to ensure the release of Ozturk, adding that legal and legal support is provided by Turkish diplomatic tasks in the United States.
“I visited the Consul General in Houston, our citizens at the center, where they are kept in Louisiana on March 28. The requests of our citizens were referred and we asked the local authorities and its lawyers.”
Our attempts to release our citizen Rümeysa öztürk, who were held in the United States of America; All types of consular service and legal support are provided by our embassies in Vashington and related consulate.
Houston General Consul General (March 28) …
Pioneer Poetry Foreign Ministry spokesman (SPAXTR_MFA) March 29, 2025
A Oztuk Prison This happens after a year of cooking an opinion article in the Tatz Students newspaper, which criticizes the Foundation’s response to the students’ appeal to Duke from companies with Israeli relations and “identifying the Palestinian genocide.”
Despite the Tuesday night order, a PhD student in Volibright and his colleague in Massachusetts require 48 hours notice, she is now in Louisiana.
On Friday’s decision, the American boycott judge, Denis Casper in Boston, said that to give time to solve whether the court is still a jurisdiction about the case, it was temporarily prohibiting the deportation of Oztuk.
Trump’s government ordered the response to Ozturk’s complaint until Tuesday (1).
