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A month after the news that a Turkish boy named Yunus is living with lesbian foster parents in the Netherlands, the storm of protest from the Turkish media has still not abated.
“The collective scorn for the Netherlands is becoming louder and louder. The hostility has been prompted by the fact that in Turkey the idea of lesbian foster parents is unthinkable,” writes the Dutch daily.
However, on social media networks, the tone is quite different. Many Turks seem content that the boy is living with a family, and not in the streets. In Turkey only 2 per cent of homeless children live with a foster family, compared to the European average of around 75 per cent.
Dutch politicians now fear that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Thursday visit to the Netherlands will be overshadowed by the affair.
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