(11 May 2025)
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Boston Logan Airport, Massachusetts – 10 May 2025
1. Carol Rose, executive director, ACLU of Massachusetts; Senator Edward J. Markey; Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley; Jessie Rossman, legal director, ACLU of Massachusetts; Mahsa Khanbabai, Khanbabai Immigration Law and Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk arriving for news briefing
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rumeysa Ozturk, Tufts University student:
"Thank you everyone for all your support and love. In the last 45 days, I lost both my freedom and also my education during a crucial time for my doctoral studies. I am so excited to get back to my studies, community, friends, professors and my students."
++BLACK FRAMES++
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rumeysa Ozturk, Tufts University student:
"I came to United States to pursue my graduate studies, learn and grow as a scholar, and also to contribute to ++indistinct word++ field with my teaching, research and applied work. America is the greatest democracy in the world, and I believe in those values that we share. I have faith in the American system of justice."
++BLACK FRAMES++
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rumeysa Ozturk, Tufts University student:
"This has been a very difficult time for me, for my community, for my community at Tufts, at Turkey. But I am so grateful for all the support, kindness and care."
5. Wide of Markey speaking at briefing
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator Edward J. Markey, Massachusetts:
++OZTURK IN FRAME LISTENING++
“Today is a tremendous day as we welcome you back, Rumeysa. You have made millions and millions of people across our country so proud of the way you have fought, you have resisted, you have stood up to injustice.”
7. Group leaving briefing
STORYLINE:
A Tufts University student from Turkey returned to Boston on Saturday, one day after being released from a Louisiana immigration detention center where she was held for over six weeks.
Upon arrival at Logan Airport, Rumeysa Ozturk told reporters she was excited to get back to her studies during what has been a “very difficult” period.
“In the last 45 days, I lost both my freedom and also my education during a crucial time for my doctoral studies,” she said. “But I am so grateful for all the support, kindness and care.”
A judge ordered Ozturk’s release pending a final decision on her claim that she was illegally detained following an op-ed she co-wrote last year criticizing her university’s response to Israel and the war in Gaza.
Ozturk said she will continue her case in the courts, adding, “I have faith in the American system of justice.”
She was joined by her lawyers and two of Massachusetts’ Democratic members of Congress, Sen. Edward Markey and Rep. Ayanna Pressley.
“Today is a tremendous day as we welcome you back, Rumeysa,” Markey said. “You have made millions and millions of people across our country so proud of the way you have fought.”
Appearing by video for her bail hearing Friday, Ozturk, 30, detailed her growing asthma attacks in detention and her desire to finish her doctorate focusing on children and social media.
U.S. District Judge William Sessions in Vermont ruled that she was to be released on her own recognizance with no travel restrictions.
She was not a danger to the community or a flight risk, he said, while noting that he might amend the release order to consider any conditions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, in consultation with her lawyers.
Sessions said the government offered no evidence for why Ozturk was arrested other than the op-ed.
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