A court in Ankara, Turkey, has formally rejected the paternity lawsuit filed by Necla Özmen, 55, who made a claim that she is US President Donald Trump’s biological daughter. Although the court stated that there were no “concrete evidence,” its ruling did not stop Özmen, who is taking her search for identity to the international stage.
Özmen, an Ankara resident, has spent her whole life knowing to be the biological daughter of Satı and Dursun Özmen. Her father Dursun passed away in 2009 without any hint of a family secret. According to Necla, however, her life changed drastically in 2017 after her mother Satı, who brought her up, supposedly revealed the truth of her birth while on her deathbed. The story Özmen shared is a complex one, which makes for fascinating reading. In 1970, as she says, Satı gave birth to a stillborn child at a hospital. At the same time, she continues, there was another woman, Sophia, a United States citizen, who was in the hospital. As Necla tells it, Sophia got pregnant through an illicit affair with Donald Trump, who was, according to her, then part of the NATO forces stationed in Turkey.
Allegedly, Sophia handed her child to Satı to raise Necla on her own.
The turning point for Necla came years later when she saw Donald Trump on the news. She recounts that Satı pointed to the screen and identified him as the man from the photograph Sophia had shown her decades earlier. This revelation sparked a nearly decade-long emotional journey that eventually led to the doors of the Ankara 27th Family Court.
Upon filing her case in September, Necla demanded a DNA test as well as legal recognition of paternity. Unfortunately for her, the Turkish judicial system appeared to be a barrier too high to overcome. Indeed, on October 10, the court rejected the case, arguing that the claim lacked “concrete evidence.”
The court noted that the issues with the case were “substantive rather than procedural.” From a legal perspective, this implied that there was no room for extending the period for submission of evidence, because there were no grounds at all to hold the trial, i.e., there was no evidence in terms of documents (e.g., travel documents, hospital reports, confirmed letters).
Despite the legal rejection, Necla has been vocal about her intentions. In emotional interviews with Turkish media outlets, including a televised appearance where she burst into tears, she has insisted that her motivation is not financial or political.
“I don’t know how accurate it is. I want to find out if he is my father,” she stated. “I don’t want to cause him any trouble, knowingly or unknowingly. I just want to know the truth. I can prove through a DNA test that he is my father, if he agrees.”
She refers to Trump as a “good father” to his other children and believes that had he known her, he would have embraced her into his fold. This case is not about suing a world leader; rather, she sees this as a journey for finding a part of herself that she lost along the way. She has gone on record addressing him as “my father” and requesting his help in finding herself.
However, Necla Özmen has not accepted the Turkish court’s decision as the final one. She has lodged an appeal in the Turkish appeals court, while at the same time taking further legal action in America. Collaborating with Turkish-American attorneys, she has sent her requests to the American Embassy, and it has been reported that she has even made efforts to lodge a case with a “competent American court.”
The double track approach indicates that she has a tough battle ahead of her. Although the Turkish court was concerned about the absence of evidence in her claims, Necla seems to be banking on the possibility that the American court could see her claim as an individual’s right to know their biological parents.
If her claim turn out to be true, the consequences are huge. She was born in 1970, which would make her the oldest daughter of Donald Trump, even preceding Donald Trump Jr.
It would mean the president has children with four different women, stretching back to a period of his life that has remained largely outside the public record.
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