The man who made "Ibrahim" a household name in Michiana is headed back to court, to try to clear his name.

It could be the final round in Ibrahim Parlak’s long fight to stay in the states.

On October 22nd, a federal appeals court in Cincinnati will hear the case for and against Parlak’s possible deportation.

Parlak is an immigrant from Turkey who came to the U.S. in 1991. He was living a quiet life in Harbert until 2004, when he was arrested for alleged ties to terrorists and jailed for ten months.

Only when Parlak’s case got to court did the tide begin to turn. In May of 2005, a judge ruled that Parlak had to be released on bail.

Now Parlak is anxious to get back into the courtroom where he hopes to clear his name.

“Sure, it would be important for me, I would like to have my life back,” Parlak said Wednesday at his restaurant in Harbert. “But it’s also important for the future of the country.”

Parlak feels his arrest was the result of over zealous, post 9/11 efforts to protect the nation. He feels losing at the appeals court level would set the wrong precedent.

“They picked the wrong person, they picked the wrong case, they’ve just been wrong all over,” he said.

“You don’t ruin innocent people’s life to prove something.”

For Parlak, victory at the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals would restore his faith in America. He claims that “life is not perfect anywhere,” but he said America is “one place to give us that opportunity where a wrong can be done, but it can be corrected too.”

So Parlak’s future in this country will depend on what is said during 30 minutes worth of oral arguments in a Cincinnati courtroom next week.