TURKS PROTEST ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BY GERMAN FAMILIES
AA Published : 20.10.2014 16:19:11
Turks protest adoption of children by German familiesDÜSSELDORF — A Turkish nongovernmental organization is spearheading a protest in Germany's Düsseldorf against the adoption of Turkish children by German families.
Activists from the Umut Y?ld?z? (Star of Hope) Association and Turkish citizens in Germany joined the sit-in strike outside Landtag, the representative assembly of North Rhine-Westphalia. They are voicing their concerns about a practice the Jugendamt (Youth Office) allegedly engages in, where they settle children from troublesome or unstable families with German foster parents even in the case of "baseless" complaints towards the biological family of the child.
Speaking on the 25th day of the protest, Kamil Altay, director of Umut Y?ld?z?, said thousands of children were removed from their families every year and "raised in a lifestyle foreign to their own values."