Incomplete, one-sided, and misleading—that’s how the Miracle IVF Center in the occupied territories describes the BBC’s report on the process of conceiving children using a sperm or egg donor other than the one chosen by the parents—a process to which the center and Dr. Firdevs Uguz Tip refer.
As reported by the occupied territories, in a statement issued today, the center in question refers to the report from the day before yesterday—the result of a BBC investigation — and argues that the principles of press freedom and the public interest cannot justify the publication of unsubstantiated allegations and the disregard of official documents.
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The Miracle Center states that, to date, no specific documents, patient records, or valid patient authorizations proving personal or institutional liability on the part of the center or Dr. Tip, while it considers that the results of the inspections conducted by the “Ministry of Health” of the pseudo-state at the center were not adequately made public, nor were “Dr. Tip’s comprehensive and documented explanations, which were limited to a brief denial.” It also refers to a letter from the “Ministry of Health” dated July 23, 2026, which indicates that the Doğuş in vitro fertilization center and the Miracle center do not belong to the same legal and institutional entity.
According to the statement, Dr. Tip worked at the Doğuş Center between 2009 and 2015 exclusively as a gynecologist and obstetrician. The doctor joined the Miracle Center as the head of the in vitro fertilization program after the center began operations on April 18, 2019, having secured a “license” from the pseudo-state.
For this reason, she believes that the references in the BBC investigation regarding the period from 2011 to 2015—when Miracle was not in operation—do not correspond to reality.
The statement notes that due to the presentation of unverified claims, the misrepresentation of events prior to 2019 at the Miracle center, and the disregard of “official” documents, the foundation and Dr. Tip reserve the right to pursue all necessary “legal and administrative avenues to protect their personal rights and their professional and commercial reputation.”
The first party to issue a statement on the matter was the Community Justice Party. In its statement today, the party’s health office questions whether the “government” will now attribute this to an “attempt to create a sensation.”
It notes that these are new allegations by the BBC and calls on the “health minister” to disclose the results of the investigation he conducted into in vitro fertilization centers. If the allegations are true—that DNA testing revealed the donors were different from those the parents had selected based on the medical history provided to them by the center— then this cannot be considered a simple medical error.
The KKD Health Committee states that the use of reproductive cells from another person instead of a donor whom an individual believes they have selected with their explicit consent can have extremely serious consequences regarding the patient’s consent, medical safety, the traceability of genetic and health history, and the child’s rights regarding their biological origins.
It further notes that the field of in vitro fertilization is a critical area of health care, but allegations against certain centers or individuals should not cast suspicion on the entire health sector.
