AMSTERDAM — A Dutch lesbian couple have gone into hiding with their foster son after the boy’s biological parents said on television in Turkey that they object to the pair taking care of their child.
The matter is threatening to overshadow an official visit by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the Netherlands next week. Lodewijk Asscher, the Dutch vice prime minister, told reporters Friday that the issue is an internal Dutch matter and that political interference from Turkey is “inappropriate.”
The 9-year-old boy identified by his first name, Yunus, was removed from his biological parents’ care — in the Netherlands — while he was still a baby, and eventually placed in the care of the lesbian couple, who live in The Hague.
His biological mother, Nurgul Azeroglu, appeared on a Turkish television program earlier this month and called on Erdogan to intervene in the case. She acknowledged having accidentally dropped the child from a poorly fastened carrying bag once — apparently part of the reason he was removed from her care.
Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad reported that two other children were also to be taken away from the family in 2008, but they then traveled to Turkey to prevent that from happening.
Prominent Turkish politicians have recently spoken out against children of Turkish ancestry being raised by Christians, homosexuals, or others whose values are rejected by their biological parents.
Asscher praised the foster parents for taking on a “child in danger” and defended Dutch social service policies.“The selection of a foster family in the Netherlands is a careful process,” he said. “We don’t choose foster parents on the basis of race or heritage, but on whether a child is in good hands with them.”
Child social services in The Hague said there was no specific threat against Yunus or his foster parents, but he has been kept home from school as a precaution since the interview aired.
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This is sad they should be allowed to raise that child in peace.
*their* child, until they put it up for adoption…
well i guess the biological parent should have not lost her priveleges as a parent then. If she didn’t, she wouldn’t have to bitch about it. I’d think she’s rather bitch about not having her kids period. Not who is taking care of them. >:/
Couple goes into hiding… no threats were made… and people think they should broadcast their information everywhere… how is this helping??
Another persons trash I’d another’s treasure, biological mother gave up any rights whatsoever to the child the adoptive parents are legal parents , DNA is nothing nowadays It’s the love and caring the child gets that’s parenthood, anybody can get pregnant the answer here is they shouldn’t have to go hiding, biological mother step back, get a grip and move on.
Hate on yourselves not the lesbian couple.
Please now they care?! I wonder how much money they were trying to blackmail them before they took it to tv… That’s bullshit!!! Leave the kid and their real 2 mothers alone!!!
I hope the Dutch pair will contact me if they need money to go on protecting their family. I do not like broken ties.
.,fuck them! now they care about the child? and what is the dutch government doing!!!!
they lost all the rights they have with the child the moment they put him into adoption!!!!
Go figure. The couple is taking care of their biological child as their own child and all they can say, in return for giving the boy a home, is “fuck you.” How dishonorable. They should be, at the very least, expressing gratitude.
“White Trash” are everywhere. The Dutch are right, this is an internal matter and nothing to do with the Turkish Gov. Frankly the Turks should find these shit bag parents and check on the welfare of the kids that didn’t escape their “care”.
how ironic! Turkish gov. is an ally of the Vatican
that is so awful:( love and strength to them.xx