Pro-Palestine Tufts Uni graduate targeted by Trump returns to Turkey
Lawyers for Rumeysa Ozturk announced the accord on Friday, a week after the administration fired a judge who had rejected the attempts to deport her.
Ozturk's case was an example of the Trump administration's efforts to detain and deport non-US citizen students with pro-Palestinian views [Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images]
A Tufts University graduate who was arrested by US immigration agents last year as part of the targeting by President Donald Trump's administration of pro-Palestinian campus activists has returned to her home in Turkey following a settlement with the US government.
Lawyers for Rumeysa Ozturk announced the accord on Friday, a week after the administration fired an immigration judge who had in January rejected the US Department of Homeland Security's efforts to deport her.
The administration had been appealing that decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals, which is part of the US Justice Department.
It was also awaiting a ruling by a federal appeals court in its bid to overturn another judge's decision that led to Ozturk's release from immigration custody in May 2025.
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