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2023: Sad days for ‘adoptable’ children in Greece
The year is 2023: a major adoption scandal has unfolded in Hania, Crete. The adoption traffic may have been going on for the past 10 years? Ten years? How about 70 years? Adoption in and from Greece is celebrating a bizarre anniversary this year. Let me take you back to 1953, back 70 years ago.
1953: On the frontline
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First single dad to adopt child in Türkiye gives first interview
Serkan Özübek, who broke new ground in Türkiye by becoming the first single male to adopt a child in the country in 2019, has come to the forefront in this year's Fathers Day with his first interview "he gave with his son" after three years.
"I always wanted to father a child even if I was not the biological dad," Özübek told daily Milliyet on June 19.
Bill aims to speed up, improve child adoption process
Legislation set to take effect in April aims to improve transparency and speed up the placement of children put up for adoption or foster care in Greece.
"We want to lift the shroud of mystery that often surrounds adoptions in Greece," Alternate Social Solidarity Minister Theano Fotiou told Kathimerini.