"[The abduction of Rümeysa Öztürk] was not 'law enforcement.' It was a political kidnapping, an act of state terror. It mirrored, in form and intent, the very tactics the Gestapo used to silence dissent, disappear the 'undesirables,' and spread fear through calculated, extrajudicial violence in Nazi Germany."

~ Henry Giroux

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #fascism #deportation #Nazis #Ozturk

https://truthout.org/articles/amid-state-abductions-trumps-fascism-is-no-longer-creeping-its-here/

A Turkish doctoral student who was grabbed off the street by plain-clothes federal agents -- in apparent retaliation for her op-ed criticizing Israel -- says her arrest and ongoing detention won’t stop her from speaking out.
Tufts University’s PhD student #Rumeysa #Ozturk
— among several international students targeted for removal from the country for their Palestinian advocacy
— remains in detention in a Louisiana facility while her lawyers argue in court for her release.
She has not been accused of a crime, and the government’s only apparent evidence against her is an op-ed in a student newspaper.

Attempts from Donald Trump’s administration to keep her in custody
“will not deter me from my commitment to advocate for the rights of youth and children,”
she said in a statement through her attorney on Thursday.

Last year, Ozturk co-authored an op-ed in The Tufts Daily newspaper calling on the university to divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel in an effort to hold Israel accountable “for clear violations of international law.”
“Credible accusations against Israel include accounts of deliberate starvation and indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian civilians and plausible genocide,”
says the op-ed, which was written with three other students and endorsed by 32 others.

Ozturk is working towards her doctorate at the Eliot-Pearson Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
She received her master’s degree in developmental psychology from Teachers College at Columbia University, where she was a Fulbright scholar
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-ice-court-hearing-b2727114.html

A federal judge in Massachusetts ordered on Friday
barred the deportation of a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, who voiced support for Palestinians in Israel's war in Gaza and was detained by U.S. immigration officials this week.

#Rumeysa #Ozturk, 30, was taken into custody by U.S. immigration authorities near her Massachusetts home on Tuesday, according to a video showing the arrest by masked federal agents. U.S. officials revoked her visa.

Her lawyer soon after sued to secure her release, and on Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union joined her legal defense team, filing a revised lawsuit, opens new tab saying her detention violates her rights to free speech and due process.

Despite a Tuesday night order requiring the PhD student and Fulbright Scholar to not be moved out of Massachusetts without 48 hours' notice, she is now in Louisiana.

️In Friday's order, opens new tab, U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston said that to provide time to resolve whether her court retained jurisdiction over the case, she was barring Ozturk's deportation temporarily.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-halts-deportation-turkish-student-tufts-2025-03-29/

“We Have Become The Evil We Once Fought”

#KristiNoem seemingly violated the Geneva Convention. We’re snatching ppl off streets..& much more in The Blue Letter

https://open.substack.com/pub/blueamp/p/we-have-become-the-evil-we-once-fought?r=j0lyx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #news #politics #dhs #elsalvador #nato #media #ELONMUSK #ozturk #ice #usa #dictatorship #press #socialmedia #eu #tech #ai #us #america #europe #russia #ukraine #china #signal

"There are many, many stunning and unprecedented things happening in Trump’s America right now. But I chose to write about this one because, frankly, once you have watched the chilling video of masked government goons snatching Ozturk off the street in broad daylight, it is hard to think — let alone write — about anything else."

~ Will Bunch

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #fascism #Ozturk
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The gift link below is from Greg Dworkin at Daily Kos.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/rumeysa-ozturk-arrested-ice-tufts-20250327.html?id=Fy4KVluJADvGf&utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral

Rumeysa Ozturk, a doctoral student, is the latest supporter of Palestinian causes swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants who expressed political views.

(AP) #Ozturk #Trump #USA #fascism

https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-08d7f08e1daa899986b7131a1edab6d8

What we know about the Tufts University PhD student detained by federal agents in the U.S.

@CNN reports on Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk, who was arrested by masked, plainclothes agents. Her "crime" may have been writing a pro-Palestinian op-ed.

https://flip.it/QISc3v

Don't these people usually wear *white* hoods?

#Tufts #Ozturk

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/security-camera-captures-moment-tufts-190511282.html

The US is descending into an authoritarian fascist dictatorship. Terrifying for all (foreign) students and their basic rights. Today its students; tomorrow it will be you. #Rumeysa #Ozturk