Ozturk's arrest came a year after she co-authored an opinion piece, opens new tab in Tufts' student newspaper criticizing the university's response to calls by students to divest from companies ...

SOMERVILLE, Mass. (AP) — 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.

Ozturk — who was working toward a PhD in Child Study and Human Development — in a past op-ed criticized the university’s administration after the Tufts Senate passed resolutions about the ...