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A paternity lawsuit has been filed in Ankara by a Turkish citizen who claims that U.S. President Donald Trump is her biological father, according to information shared with the Ihlas News Agency (IHA). The case, lodged at the Ankara 27th Family Court, seeks a DNA test to determine biological lineage. While the initial court rejected the request, the claimant has moved the case to a higher court, keeping the legal process ongoing.
Family courts in Türkiye handle cases related to personal status, including paternity determination, adoption, and lineage disputes. In this case, the claimant is also attempting to pursue a similar legal route in the United States through diplomatic channels.
The claimant, 55-year-old Necla Ozmen, lives in Ankara and says she began questioning her biological origins after noticing inconsistencies in her official birth records and hearing statements from her family. She claims her biological mother was a U.S. citizen named Sofya and that she was given up for adoption shortly after birth.
According to Ozmen, she was registered under the identity of another woman who had previously lost a child, a practice that was not uncommon decades ago in cases of informal adoption. These uncertainties, combined with what she describes as long-standing questions about her family background, led her to seek legal clarification of her biological fatherhood.
Ozmen has told reporters that she filed the paternity case in Türkiye first, but after the court rejected her request, she appealed the decision. At the same time, she said she sent a legal petition to a family court in the United States through the relevant embassy, asking for the same issue to be examined there.
She has stated that her main demand is for Donald Trump to provide a DNA sample so that the biological relationship can be clearly established. DNA testing is a standard scientific method used by courts worldwide to determine biological parentage with high accuracy.
In remarks to the IHA, Ozmen explained that she was born in 1970 and said she first began to suspect a connection to Trump after seeing media coverage during the U.S. presidential election campaign in 2017. She said the woman who raised her then claimed that Trump was her father, an assertion she initially struggled to believe.
Ozmen has emphasized that her intention is not to accuse or publicly judge Trump, but to find clarity. She has said she wants to meet him face to face, to understand whether he was aware of her existence, and to be acknowledged by his family if the claim is proven true.
Ozmen has also said she believes she resembles Trump and some of his children, arguing that this physical similarity strengthened her determination to pursue legal action. If Trump were confirmed as her biological father, she said she would consider living with him, while still maintaining her ties to Türkiye, where she was raised and continues to live.
The legal process is now focused on the appeal stage, with no final ruling yet issued. Both the Turkish and potential U.S. legal steps remain ongoing.
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