Duchess of York faces suit over Turkey children's home film January 13, 2012 -- Updated 1131 GMT (1931 HKT) Sarah Ferguson visited the children's home outside Ankara for a British TV documentary The U.K. Home Office says it has received a request 'for mutual legal assistance' "I stand strong in the face of the rights of children," the Duchess says At the time it was broadcast in 2008, ITV hailed the program as hard-hitting and shocking Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- The Duchess of York faces charges in Turkey for going undercover and secretly filming children at a state-run home for a documentary, according to the semiofficial Anatolian news agency. The Ankara Prosecutor's office accused the Duchess of York of violating the private lives and rights of five children while filming the program for Britain's ITV network, Anatolian reported Thursday. A hidden camera was used during Sarah Ferguson's visit to the Children's Nurturing and Rehabilitation Center outside Ankara. She wore a disguise of a dark wig and headscarf for the filming. Opening the case, the Ankara chief prosecutor asked for a prison term of up to 22 years, 6 months, Turkish state TV reported. There are no details on when a trial might take place, if at all. A U.K. Home Office spokesman said: "It is not our usual policy to comment on individual cases. However, the Home Office can confirm it has received a formal request for mutual legal assistance concerning Sarah, Duchess of York. It is not appropriate to comment further. The Duchess of York said in a statement: "I stand strong in the face of the rights of children, and I remain steadfast. Children are our future. The Duchess was accompanied by one of her two daughters, Princess Eugenie, to film the ITV Tonight program in Turkey. An ITV press statement at the time of the film's broadcast in 2008 said the Duchess, as part of a reporting team, had gone "undercover in one of Turkey's worst institutions -- capturing images that will shock and horrify." The "hard-hitting" program was intended to "help investigate the treatment of mentally and physically disabled children," ITV said. The Duchess and her other daughter, Beatrice, traveled to Romania to see how state orphanages run for the second half of the program. CNN's Max Foster, Talia Kayali, Bharati Naik and Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report.