We would like to believe that the photo shown on the mainstream papers, television, websites (with very few commendable exceptions) of a tubed baby in an incubator is not the photo of the little baby boy who died last night after being delivered by cesarean section as his mother was dying. We are probably wrong. That probably is the real photo of that little boy. To put the photo of a suffering baby on the first page of papers and website is in itself an act of violence. Indeed there are international laws to protect the privacy and safety of minors. Most of Turkish mainstream media do not seemed to be bothered by laws, nor by an ethic of the journalistic profession which impose the respect of everyone's rights and children's in the first place.

But the fact that the photo of this little boy was published is to be condemn even stronger because it was published precisely to cause not just distraction, pain and compassion. Indeed it was published to provoke hate feelings.

The headlines were clearly stating the aim of such a ruthless decision: baby saved as mother killed by terrorists.

Now, what happen in Batman the other night will be investigated and shared with the public opinion. But the "truth" as told by the governor in the immediate aftermath of the tragic clash involving police and guerrillas is already proving not that 'solid'. Indeed there are videos by eyewitnesses which seem to demonstrate that the car the young family was traveling in was in fact hit by police who was shooting at random. Videos also show the police taking one guerrilla alive and you could hear the policemen shouting "kill him", "shoot him in the head".

So for the press to lend itself to what could amount to a cover up of the truth is never a good thing.

But more than anything to do so, to help the cover up, by walking over the rights of a child, and indeed the right of people to suffer and mourn, is indeed ethically wrong.

This is the time for the media to take a step back.

A family has been destroyed. This is the reality everyone has been left to face.

No one can return the loved ones to this wounded husband. But truth must be established, because knowing the truth would help the healing process.

Trying to cover up what really happened by pulling on hate strings is endangering the search for truth as well as digging once again the knife of that wounded family. Stirring up hate feelings do not serve peace.