Scholar Rumeysa Ozturk returns to Turkiye following Trump deportation push

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Rumeysa Ozturk, a doctoral student targeted for deportation by the Trump administration, has returned to Turkiye after a yearlong legal battle. The 30-year-old was arrested in March 2025 outside her Massachusetts apartment, reportedly for co-signing a pro-Palestinian opinion column in her student newspaper. Ozturk cited state-imposed violence and hostility as reasons for leaving the United States.

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