Pro-Palestinian Turkish PhD scholar detained by masked US officials

Amid the US’ bid to curb pro-Palestinian voices, a Turkish PhD scholar was arrested outside her residence in Massachusetts on Wednesday, March 26, in the United States, by masked US border security forces.

The scholar has been identified as Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national and student



of Tufts University. The detention is the latest in the Trump administration’s crackdown against pro-Palestine protestors. Recently, two students including Palestinian activist and recent Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil and Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri, were detained by US officials.