İbrahim Parlak (born 1962 in Gaziantep) is a Kurdish politician who has been accused by the United States Department of Homeland Security of being a former member and high official of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
[1] It was in Europe where Parlak then joined the political wing of the PKK and organized festivals in their support.
[1] Aiming to join his family in Turkey, he travelled to Lebanon to get training in a camp of the PKK.
[1] However, under pressure on the Clinton Administration from Turkey to support American anti-terrorism efforts, U.S. State Department retroactively labeled the PKK a "terrorist organization" in 1997.
On July 17, 2018, an immigration judge ruled that Parlak could retain his American residency per the United Nations Convention against Torture.