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Turkish student recounts ICE horror
Rumeysa Ozturk (30), a Fulbright scholar at Tufts University, was detained by masked agents on March 25
Turkish student recounts ICE horror
Producer: Nurdan Erdogan Gokhan, Graphic Artist: Busra Ozturk
April 23, 2025

A Turkish PhD student in the US was arrested by masked agents, shackled and denied a lawyer for over 24 hours — all after her student visa was revoked, along with those of 300 others, under Trump's executive order targeting pro-Palestine voices. 

This is her account of her ICE arrest

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SOURCE:TRT World
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