Infancy

The Turkish doctor at the center of an alleged fraud scheme that led to the deaths of 10 babies told an Istanbul court Saturday that he was a "trusted" physician.

Health care workers continued to deliver testimonies on the second day of a landmark trial closely followed across Türkiye, with their statements lying bare the harrowing extent of a social security fraud scheme that allegedly led to the deaths of 10 newborns.

In the opening trial on Nov. 18, an Istanbul court heard the testimonies of health workers accused of being part of a gang responsible for the deaths of 10 infants in an alleged scheme to defraud Türkiye's social security system.

The session at the Bakırköy Courthouse started later than planned due to the high number of observers wanting to attend the proceedings.

Doctors, nurses and an ambulance driver are among 47 people on trial accused of causing the deaths of 10 infants as part of an alleged scheme to defraud Turkey's social security system.

The mother thought her baby looked healthy when he was born 1.5 months early, but staff swiftly whisked him to the neonatal intensive care unit.

It was the last time Burcu Gokdeniz would see her baby alive. The doctor in charge told her that Umut Ali's heart stopped after his health deteriorated unexpectedly.

Kostas Giannopoulos from “The Smile of the Child” spoke about his communication with the 24-year-old woman from Amaliada, who was present during the deaths of four infants—two of whom were he

A prosecutor in Patra has ordered an urgent preliminary investigation into the deaths of three infants in the Achaia and Ilia regional units in the western Peloponnese.

It is understood that the mothers of the dead infants live in the same house.

The prosecutor has sought over 500 years in prison for the ringleaders of a criminal syndicate in Istanbul, accused of unnecessarily placing newborns in intensive care units for financial gain, resulting in several infant deaths.

The investigation into the gang, first revealed in May, has concluded, and the Büyükçekmece Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has finalized the indictment.

A police report has been filed against 47 individuals, including 22 currently in custody, for conspiring with employees of the 112 Emergency Call Center in Istanbul.

The suspects, which include doctors and nurses, are accused of referring infant emergency patients to private hospitals in exchange for financial gains.

Companies are now making toys not for children but for grown-ups, baby food companies are active in special and clinical nutrition products for adults, with some targeting those with diabetes and others offering nutritional supplements, while some that manufacture baby wipes are now producing incontinence diapers instead of baby nappies.