Kristina Ozturk shot to fame in 2021 after revealing she had welcomed 22 children via surrogacy with her husband Galip – a convicted criminal who was sentenced to life in prison for murder before going on the run
An influencer who gained thousands of followers online after welcoming 22 children with her millionaire criminal husband has made a shocking new promise as she returns to social media following her radio silence.
Kristina Ozturk, 27, shares her children with businessman Galip Ozturk who was released from prison in July after serving two years of his eight-year sentence pertaining to drug-related charges. He had previously been sentenced to life imprisonment in Istanbul for allegedly ordering the murder of an employee – Kuvvet Köseoğlu – in 1996.
He fled Turkey to start a new life in Georgia after a court of appeals upheld the sentence in 2018. Galip was born in 1965 in the Ayvacık district of Samsun and is the founder of Metro Tourism, one of Turkey’s largest intercity passenger transportation companies.
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Now, his Russian wife Kristina has vowed to have more children with the criminal.
Between March 2020 and July 2021, the couple paid £133,000 ($180,000) to surrogates to help grow their family, resulting in a family made up of Victoria, Mustafa, Maryam, Ayrin, Alice, Hassan, Judy, Harper, Teresa, Hussein, Anna, Isabella, Ismail, Mehmet, Ahmet, Ali, Kristina, Alena, Sarah, Lockman, Alparslan and Olivia.
Shockingly, 20 of the family’s children were born within just over a year of each other. While 22 children might be more than enough for some people, Ozturk and Galip have discussed having more than 100 babies in total.
In an interview with Fabulous in 2021, Ozturk said she had dreamed about having a big family “since childhood”.
“My husband also dreamed about having a big, happy family. So after we met, we started to put our dream into action,” she said. “Our romantic relationship has changed but then our whole lives have changed, not just the romantic part.
“Our surrogacy clinic are amazed but happy to help us with our dream of a big family. I’m not sure if we will be the biggest family in the world, but we are planning to be the happiest family in the world for sure.”
Though she receives help from nannies, Kristina made clear she does “all the things that moms normally do”.
“The only difference is the amount of kids,” she continued. “Each day is different, from planning staff schedules to shopping for my family. I can tell you one thing – my days are never boring.”
The couple decided to wait until their current children are slightly older before beginning another surrogacy journey.
Galip was sentenced in 2023 to eight years in prison after being found guilty of illegal purchase and possession of drugs and psychotropic substances. Celebrating his release, Kristina wrote on Instagram alongside a Reel of her husband returning home: “It has been done”.
To mark the occasion, Kristina hosted a lavish party at their house in Batumi – where Galip and Kristina, who is 32 years his junior – met and fell in love.
Turkish media outlet Haberler on June 30 reported that the founder of intercity bus service Metro Tourism has been released from jail under the condition of “supervised release”.
The fugitive businessman was on the run from authorities in Turkey, having fled to Georgia in 2018 after an appeal court approved his life sentence for instigating murder back in 1996.
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