Jolie and Pitt plan to adopt Syrian boy in Hatay


Woman's Day magazine has reported that Hollywood power couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are planning to adopt a two-year-old Syrian boy currently residing in Turkey, as the latest addition to their extended adopted family.The toddler named "Moussa" by the magazine, met Jolie when she visited displaced Syrians during her trip to the Middle East as Goodwill Ambassador for the U.N. The boy currently lives in a refugee camp in Hatay, a southern Turkish province.The magazine quoted an anonymous charity worker who said that Jolie was very interested in the boy when the two met, and the child's story of being forced to flee his home with relatives moved the star to tears. The magazine's report said Jolie and her husband Brad Pitt were conducting "top-secret" negotiations to adopt the boy. Turkey allows the adoption of children by foreigners, but there is no regulation for the adoption of Syrian children living in Turkey by foreign nationals, as Syrians do not have Turkish citizenship and have only temporary refugee status in the country, which is home to over 1.6 million Syrians. Jolie, equally well-known for her role as a U.N. ambassador as she is for being an actor, already has a multinational group of adopted children including Cambodian-born Maddox, Vietnamese-born Pax and Ethiopian girl Zahara. She also has three biological children with Pitt.The actor, whose last trip to the region was to Iraq in January, wrote an article for the New York Times after her visit, in which she met people displaced by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) offensive. Jolie said in the article that she tried her best to give support to refugees. "Nothing prepares you for the reality of so much individual human misery: for the stories of suffering and death, and the gaze of hungry, traumatized children. Who can blame them for thinking that we have given up on them?" Jolie wrote in the op-ed.