Federal authorities detained a Turkish student residing in the US and stripped her of his visa, accusing her of supporting Hamas.
A Turkish national learning in a doctoral program in the United States was detained and stripped of her student visa this week after she lobbied in favor of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in the midst of the war against Hamas.
On Tuesday evening, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained 30-year-old Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk under President Donald Trump’s executive order calling for the deportation of pro-Hamas foreign students studying at American colleges.
According to her attorney, Mahsa Khanbabai, Ozturk was taken into custody near her home in Somerville, Massachusetts, while she was en route to meet with friends to break that day’s Ramadan fast.
Ozturk’s F-1 student visa was subsequently cancelled and deportation proceedings initiated against Ozturk.