Father stuck in Turkey applies for judicial review of Home Office’s handling of his case

‘It’s just the loneliness of it,’ says Siyabonga Twala, who has now been stranded in Turkey for a year. Photograph: Tunahan Turhan/The Guardian

A man who remains stuck in Turkey a year after he was barred from returning to the UK with his British son has applied for a judicial review of the Home Office’s handling of his case.

Siyabonga Twala has been in limbo in Ankara ever since he was blocked from boarding a flight back to Manchester last December. His son, Mason, nine, and his parents and siblings had to return home without him.