A former stripper, who’s had 21 surrogate babies with her millionaire husband before he was arrested on charges of money laundering, has revealed she struggles to focus on joyous things as she still hopes for his return from prison.
Kristina Ozturk, 25, who lives in Batumi, Georgia, spent more than €168,000 on surrogates between March 2020 and July 2021, and spends more than €90,000 a year on 16 live-in nannies.
She had one child from a previous relationship when she met her husband, Turkish businessman Galip Ozturk, 57, who owns the bus company Metro Turizm, on a holiday. The couple married and set out to have 105 surrogate babies together.
These plans were put on hold after Galip was arrested on charge of money laundering and falsifying documents in May. He already had fled Turkey in 2018 after an appeal court approved his life sentence related to a murder back in 1996.
The mother-of-22 revealed in a heart-breaking update on Instagram that she is still hoping for Galip’s safe return and added it has been hard to keep their Instagram page going since her husband’s arrest.
‘Many of you have noticed with the events happening in our family, it’s been harder for me to keep the page,’ she said in a post shared on her social media channel, where she counts 228,000 followers.
‘It’s hard to talk about some household things or joys when all thoughts are far away and busy just waiting for my husband to come home to us.
‘I’m sure that day will come soon, but in the meantime, I just want to say thank you so much for all your support and kind words,’ she added.
Opening up about her husband’s problems with the law earlier this year, Kristina admitted she couldn’t ‘stand his absence’ in another post.
In late May, The Mtavari TV channel broadcast footage of special forces raiding Galip’s hotel in the coast of Georgia after his arrest.
Galip’s arrest was confirmed by Georgia’s Finance Ministry spokeswoman Nato Natroshvili in a statement.
In an emotional post shared on her Instagram account on June 9, Kristina wrote: ‘The feeling of loneliness does not leave me even with such a large number of close people around.
‘I’m used to my husband always being at home, always around. Since Galip has been working exclusively from home for the last few years, we spent time together constantly during the day. At night, when the children were put to bed, we chatted incessantly.
Kristina and Ozturk’s babies are Mustafa, 19 months; Mariam, 18 months; Ayrin, 18 months; Alisa, 18 months; Hasan, 17 months; Judi, 17 months; Harper, 16 months; Teresa, 16 months; Huseyin, 16 months and Anna, 15 months.
As well as Isabella, 15 months; Ismail, 14 months; Mehmet, 14 months; Ahmet, 14 months; Ali, 13 months; Kristina, 13 months; Sara, one; Lokman, one; Galip, 11 months; Olivia, nine months and Judy, three months.
The mother of 22 previously revealed she and her husband have discussed having over 100 children, saying: ‘I don’t know how many there will eventually be, but we certainly don’t plan to stop at 10.’