Turkey Foreign Ministry continues to make efforts to liberate the Turkish citizen, Rumes of Oztyurk, detained by employees of the US immigration and customs police (ICE) in Boston.
About this, the official representative of the Turkish Foreign Ministry Ondigu Kecheli wrote on the social network X on Saturday, March 29.
“Our efforts to liberate the Turkish citizen Rumes of Oztyurk, detained in the United States, continue. The Turkish Embassy in Washington and the relevant consulate generals provide comprehensive consular assistance and legal support,” follows from the text. >
KECHELI emphasized that the Consul General of Turkey in Houston on the eve visited lakes in the center of detention in Louisiana, and her requests and demands were transferred to local authorities and lawyer.
A graduate student of the University of Tafts in Massachusetts Rymase Oztyurk was detained by six ICE employees in the evening of March 25, when it was heading with friends to Iftar (evening meal during the Muslims of the month of Ramazan).
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the student visa of the Oztyurk Rumas was canceled and the graduate student was deported.
The diplomat also reported on the cancellation of visas of more than 300 foreign students whom he called “supporters of Hamas” and “madmen.”
On Saturday, March 29, the federal judge in Massachusetts Deniz Kasper decided to suspend the deportation of the Turkish graduate student Rumes of Oztyurk.