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Tufts community describes painful absence of detained Turkish student Rümeysa Öztürk

A federal judge on Friday ordered Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish national, to be released from detention. Öztürk’s detention is one of the most high-profile cases in the Trump administration’s targeting of international students in the U.S.

WBUR’s Patrick Madden reports how her Tufts community is coping with her absence.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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