A federal appeals court has denied an appeal from a Southwest Michigan restaurant owner fighting deportation back to Turkey. The Department of Homeland Security has said Ibrahim Parlak did not disclose his conviction related to the Kurdish separatist movement when he was granted political asylum in the United States in 1991. In a split decision, two of three judges on the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Parlak's petition for a review of his case. In a dissent Judge Boyce Martin Junior called the case, in his words, "a sad remnant of an era of paranoid, overzealous, error-riddled and misguided anti-terrorism and immigration enforcement." Parlak owns the Cafe Gulistan restaurant in the small town of Harbert. He operated a restaurant with the same name in downtown Kalamazoo in the late 1990's and early this decade.