In Ankara, Necla Ozmen has turned a private ache into a global headline. Legally registered as the daughter of Sati and Dursun Ozmen, she says her world shifted in 2017 when her mother allegedly confessed that Necla was adopted after a stillbirth. According to Necla, an American woman named Sophia, recovering in the same Turkish hospital in 1970, handed over her newborn, supposedly conceived with Donald Trump, to the grieving couple.
Necla describes no desire for money or fame, only a desperate need for certainty and a conversation with the man she believes is her father. Turkish courts have already dismissed her case for lack of evidence, but she is appealing and has petitioned courts in the United States as well. Between a powerful former president, a decades-old mystery, and a woman who refuses to back down, the truth now depends on whether a single DNA test ever happens.
