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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 27 November 2025)
Uh, it's complicated...
Dr. Furkan Dölek, a Turkish scientist living in the US, discovered
radioactive risks threatening the health of researchers at Fermilab,
a laboratory affiliated with the US Department of Energy, in March
2024. He shared this information with US officials and publicized it
on social media.
Dölek, who works at prominent institutions such as CERN, Fermilab,
and Virginia Tech, shared his posts about the process that went viral
on social media. Following this post, Dölek was fired from his job
in April 2024 and his visa was revoked. (!)
Dölek filed a lawsuit challenging the revocation of his academic
research visa. When his legal efforts failed, he was forced to reside
in the country without a visa for the past four months and began
a protest march to Canada.
The ICEmen cometh.
However (!), Dölek was arrested by ICE (US Immigration and
Customs Enforcement) and was not heard from after August 27.
On September 4, following efforts by the Turkish Consulate General
in New York, it was revealed that Dölek was in the Buffalo Federal
Detention Center in New York.
Attorney Seyit Şahin, President of the Turkish-American National
Steering Committee (TASC), announced that Dr. Dölek has been
released pending trial on $50,000 bail. Şahin stated that Dölek arrived
in Chicago with his lawyer after being released from prison in El Paso,
Texas (!), on the Mexican border.
In a joint statement, attorneys Michael Gökhan Kıran and Seyit Şahin,
who are volunteering on behalf of TASC, said, "Defending the rights
of the Turkish-American community is our responsibility. Dr. Furkan
Dölek's release is a natural consequence of this responsibility."
Dölek, whose bail was quickly raised under the leadership of TASC
and with the support of the Turkish American community, will reside
in Chicago during his trial without detention.
What a long, strange trip it's been...
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