HARBERT (WKZO-AM) — Ibraham Parlak has been given another year reprieve on a deportation order while the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sorts out his fate.
Shifting politics in the Middle East has turned the same reason why he was granted political asylum decades ago into a reason that some believe think he should be deported. Turkey claims he was involved in the death of two border guards back in 1980, but he claims the charges were trumped up because of his dissident status.
He once operated a restaurant in Kalamazoo that he moved to Berrien County years ago. He now operates the popular Cafe Gulistan in Harbert.
Parlak said his life would be in danger if he was forced to go back.
Congressman Fred Upton has been working to get the deportation efforts dropped altogether.
