Posted on 03/26/2025 5:19:01 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University has been detained by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation, her lawyer said Wednesday.
Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, had just left her home in Somerville on Tuesday night when she was stopped, lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai said in a petition filed in Boston federal court.
Video obtained by The Associated Press appears to show six people, their faces covered, taking away Ozturk’s phone as she yells and is handcuffed.
“We’re the police,” members of the group are heard saying in the video.
A man is heard asking, “Why are you hiding your faces?”
Khanbabai said Ozturk, who is Muslim, was meeting friends for iftar, a meal that breaks a fast at sunset during Ramadan.
“We are unaware of her whereabouts and have not been able to contact her. No charges have been filed against Rumeysa to date that we are aware of,” Khanbabai said in a statement. Ozturk has a visa allowing her to study in the United States, Khanbabai said.
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“We are unaware of her whereabouts and have not been able to contact her.”
Hint: The Country Code for El Salvador is +503.
(Ozturk, who is Muslim, was meeting friends for iftar, a meal that breaks a fast at sunset during Ramadan)
Texted plans for an attack?
Other Social Media posts?
Phone 📱 contact with known operatives?
Does Tufts still make toilet paper?
LOL!
503 is an area code in Oregon…
Take that mayor wu. Hopefully it’s not allowed to stay here we shall see. They come here and subvert our way of life f$ck them! Have fun in Turkey if/when they send your ass back byatch.
“LOL! 503 is an area code in Oregon…”
You might want to apply...
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports.html
No one knows who the masked people were, right? Why say they are US law enforcement? They could be Muslim law enforcement, like her dad’s or brother’s friends.
Looks like you are smoking out the people who have never made an international call, or perhaps even crossed a county line, much less a country line.
Adding: so did ICE take a page from El Salvadore’s playbook, i.e., the masks? All of the guards at the prison looked masked. If so, that was smart.
Yes, I would call 911 if I saw something like that going down. It sounds like something jack booted storm troopers might do, but my rule of thumb is 'no badge, no respect'.
Sharia sheriffs?
Stavridos works there.
there are a lot of demonstrations against the Turkish government for arresting a mayor of a major town. This could be a kidnapping by a political organization to silence the opposition.
Since when does ICE wear masks?
Maybe? I can see our ICE using new tactics, though. Everything they tried us getting blocked.
My thoughts exactly -—that doesn’t fit the playbook of ICE or any other legit LE agency
Well actually looks like DHS has already acknowledged it was them and this woman is detained in Louisiana....from the pictures and other corroborating evidence it looks like Ms Noem is not showing any tact or intelligence in the administration of her duties. I frankly had a hunch she was in over her head-—these are wrong moves in my view. WAy too far.
This will get publicized very negatively on top of the Columbia student Khalil
So Noem went to El Salvador for detainment lessons?
Foreign nationals finally being detained, instead of being told how perfectly wonderful they are, and you have a problem with that. Go wash the Harris/Walz sticker off your car, I can see it from here. The election is over.
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