Reaction to Izmir's Central Hospital's decision to display the seven bodies of babies born dead at 19 weeks to Sibel Deniz are continuing across Turkey. Pictures of the babies, lying in a line on a towel with the hospital's name printed at the top, ran in newspapers yesterday, with particular focus falling on the man pictured behind them, Central Hospital's Doctor Ozer Gurbuz.

There was no word as to whether the decision to display the bodies was taken with the permission of the babies' parents, Sibel and Huseyin Deniz. Huseyin Deniz says that he was given a paper to sign which had to do with a press conference, and he added "Doctor Ozer did read me the contents of a paper giving permission for something, but whether or not it had to do with displaying the babies' bodies I cannot recall. I was exhausted from the events which had just occured. I wish that the babies had not been put on display like that. But it has happened, and there is nothing that can be done about it. My wife saw it on television, and was very sad."
 
The babies' mother, Sibel Deniz, defended the actions of the doctor, saying "I had never thought that the babies would be shown by the media. Doctor Ozer allowed them to be filmed for the archives, and now he is being portrayed as doing it for show. I trust my doctor."