{"id":72025,"date":"2026-04-17T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/tufts-university-student-targeted-by-trump-administration-completes-phd\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:00:06","slug":"tufts-university-student-targeted-by-trump-administration-completes-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/tufts-university-student-targeted-by-trump-administration-completes-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Tufts University student targeted by Trump administration completes PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>R\u00fcmeysa \u00d6zt\u00fcrk, who faced deportation over pro-Palestinian op-ed, travels back to Turkey to begin career<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/feb\/18\/rumeysa-ozturk-trauma-children-ice-gaza\">R\u00fcmeysa \u00d6zt\u00fcrk<\/a>, the Tufts University student who was targeted by the Trump administration last year in response to co-writing a pro-Palestinian op-ed, completed her doctorate in the US and traveled back to her native Turkey this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d6zt\u00fcrk was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/feb\/18\/rumeysa-ozturk-trauma-children-ice-gaza\">detained<\/a> last year by immigration agents in Massachusetts, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/26\/ice-agents-detain-tufts-university-graduate-student\">video of<\/a> the Tufts University student\u2019s arrest going viral. She was one of many international students targeted by the Trump administration for pro-Palestinian speech and activism during widespread protests, which were especially active on US college campuses, against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/israel-hamas-war\">Israel\u2019s war in Gaza<\/a> in response to the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/29\/the-middle-east-in-crisis-7-october-the-day-that-changed-the-world\">deadly attack<\/a> on southern Israel.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/17\/tufts-rumeysa-ozturk-trump-administration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R\u00fcmeysa \u00d6zt\u00fcrk, who faced deportation over pro-Palestinian op-ed, travels back to Turkey to begin career Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox R\u00fcmeysa \u00d6zt\u00fcrk, the Tufts University student who was targeted by the Trump administration last year in response to co-writing a pro-Palestinian op-ed, completed her doctorate &#8230; <a title=\"Tufts University student targeted by Trump administration completes PhD\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/tufts-university-student-targeted-by-trump-administration-completes-phd\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tufts University student targeted by Trump administration completes PhD\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}