Influencer who had 21 surrogate babies with her murderer husband makes a dramatic comeback: Mother, 27, who 'disappeared' for 2 years throws a lavish party to celebrate her husband, 60, being freed from prison
Kristina Ozturk, 27, has made a dramatic return to Instagram to celebrate the release of disgraced Turkish bus baron Galip Ozturk from prison after serving two years of his eight-year sentence pertaining to drug-related charges.
Galip was born in 1965 in the Ayvacık district of Samsun and is the founder of Metro Turism, one of Turkey's largest intercity passenger transportation companies. He was already on the run, having fled Istanbul to live in Georgia in 2018 after a court of appeals upheld his life imprisonment sentence for allegedly ordering the murder of a Metro Tourism company employee - Kuvvet Köseoğlu - in 1996.
After months of radio silence against the backdrop of Galip's incarceration - with her last Instagram post dating back to November 2023 - Kristina Thursday shared an Instagram Reel on Thursday, documenting the family's preparations for his return to their home in Georgia.
'It has been done,' Kristina captioned the clip, which showed her dressing up for her husband as the couple's extended family - including Galip's adult children from a previous marriage - arrived to celebrate
It comes after fans expressed their concern for Kristina after one person shared a tearful snap of the content creator in a post on Reddit titled 'Sign of Life' - referring to the extended period of silence on her socials.
However, it has now become clear that Kristina - who posted a screenshot of a purported video call with her step-children on June 28 - was crying tears of joy after being informed Galip had secured a supervised release from prison.
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'.
Grainy CCTV footage obtained by the publication showed a man believed to be Galip embracing his relatives, who were waiting 'at the door' of the correctional facility, before leaving in a car.
Kristina, originally from Moscow, met wealthy hotel owner Galip while holidaying in the coastal town of Batumi in Georgia.
In an interview with Fabulous, Kristina described their first meeting as love at first sight, adding the Turkish businessman was her 'mentor, guide and fairytale prince all rolled into one'.
Galip added: 'She is so easy to be with, she always has a smile on her lips and yet at the same time is shy and mysterious.
'She was the kind of wife I always wanted for myself, an uncut diamond where I saw what a pure and kind heart she had.'
Things progressed quickly for the couple, with Kristina and her young daughter Vika moving to Batumi to be with Galip.
Kristina said that despite the fact Galip was 32 years older than her, and had adult children of his own, he had no objections to having a large family.
The couple hit headlines in 2021 when Kristina revealed they spent £138,000 (€168,000) on surrogates between March 2020 and July 2021 - with 20 of their babies being born within one year.
Kristina also claimed she and Galip planned on having 105 biological children - all conceived via surrogacy - before the businessman was arrested three years after a special forces op unearthed 'particularly large amounts' of drugs at his house.
In late May 2022, 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 later confirmed by Georgia's Finance Ministry spokeswoman Nato Natroshvili in a statement.
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.
In an emotional post shared on her Instagram account on June 9, 2022, 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.
'If I went to Tbilisi or Istanbul, we chatted on the phone for hours, all night long.
'Now it's more difficult than ever for me, I can't stand silence, I can't stand his absence, I can't sleep and wake up alone, I can't see his empty workplace... I can't see his smile, I can't hear his voice, I can't feel his embrace.'
Shortly after Galip's arrest, Kristina also admitted she struggled to explain what had happen to her oldest daughter Vika.
While Kristina has yet to comment on Galip's alleged release from, she frequently used her platform to talk about his incarceration - expressing she 'couldn't stand his absence' in one post.
In February 2023, Kristina's bus baron husband - who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for a 1996 murder in Turkey before he fled to Georgia - was handed an eight-year sentence on drug-related charges that his lawyer called 'made up'.
The following month, Kristina bundled up her oldest surrogate baby, Mustafa, and travelled to the Georgian prison to visit Galip - a trip that she documented on Instagram in a post titled 'The Longest 24 Hours'.
'It felt like we were newlyweds,' Kristina mused, recalling the moment she set eyes on her jailed husband. 'Both were nervous, their palms were sweating, their thoughts were colliding and gathering.'
'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.'
In September 2023, she penned a heartwarming post after Galip's aunt came to visit the brood.
'Times are difficult, and communication with loved ones becomes especially valuable,' she wrote.
'We all need support and understanding. When loved ones help us get through a difficult time, it's really wonderful.
'Love helps us overcome difficulties and makes our lives brighter.'
On her birthday in 2023, Kristina also marked a 'new beginning' for her journey.
'I started a blog when my kids were just coming out, and my goal was to share the hardships and joys of motherhood. But as often happens, life does not go as planned, and today I'm at a tipping point,' she explained.
'All the challenges I've faced helped me grow and learn, and my first attempts will probably be chaotic, but I believe I can succeed. I decided to live.
For the next seven months, the 'momfluencer' kept her social media channels up-to-date with information about Ozturk's legal trials as well as updates about her brood and reflections on surrogacy and parenthood.
Then she went dark. The last time Kristina posted to her Instagram feed was on 14 November 2023 to mark her eldest daughter, Victoria's ninth birthday.
Unlike her step-siblings, Victoria was not conceived via surrogacy; she was born in 2014 from Kristina's previous marriage.
Today, the overwhelming majority of comments under Kristina's Instagram posts are from concerned followers enquiring about her whereabouts and well-being - as the 'momfluencer' with her brood of 22 stays mum.
Apart from her eldest, Vika, and son Mustafa, Kristina is also a mother to Maryam, Ayrin, Alice, Hassan, Judy, Harper, Teresa, Hussein, Anna, Isabella, Ismail, Mehmet and Ahmet - all of whom are three - and Ali, Kristina, Alena, Sarah, Lockman and Alparslan, who are two years old.
Her and Galip's youngest child, daughter Olivia, was born in January 2021.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Daily Mail
an hour ago
- Daily Mail
Revealed: The key sign your partner is a NARCISSIST
From a constant need for attention to always checking their looks in the mirror, there are plenty of signs that your partner might be a narcissist. But if you really want to know the secrets of someone's psychology, scientists say there is one surprising sign you should look for. Psychologists from Georgia Southern University compared narcissistic traits to how people felt about their favourite celebrities. And if your partner is an Oasis superfan or a die-hard Swifty, then it might be bad news. The researchers found that the more someone admires celebrities, the more likely they are to have a trait called 'vulnerable narcissism'. That means they are more likely to have a fragile ego, a deep fear of rejection, low self-esteem, and a preoccupation with self-image. This was also true for people who saw themselves as more alike with their favourite celebrity. The more vulnerable narcissist traits someone had, the more similar in terms of appearance, behaviour, and personality someone thought they were to a celeb. Previous studies have suggested that celebrity culture is having a growing impact on individual psychology. As we are more exposed to public figures through platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, the lives of celebrities have begun to feel much closer to our own. Some researchers believe that these one-sided relationships, known as parasocial interactions, could have a big impact on someone's self-image and emotional well-being. To investigate this connection, researchers from Georgia Southern University recruited 215 mainly female undergraduate students and surveyed them on their values and attitudes. Each participant answered questions about their feelings towards celebrities, materialistic values and narcissistic traits, alongside questions about how similar they felt they were to their favourite celeb. Celebrity worship was measured on a scale, known as the Celebrity Attitude Scale, ranging from low levels of admiration for their work to intense obsessions. At the highest end of the scale, the focus on a celebrity veered into potentially dangerous territory with an expression of willingness to commit crimes for them. Narcissism, meanwhile, was measured in both its forms - the more emotionally sensitive vulnerable narcissism and the more assertive grandiose narcissism. Unlike vulnerable narcissists, grandiose narcissists are characterised by their exaggerated self-confidence, charisma, sense of entitlement, and inflated sense of self-importance. The analysis, published in the International Journal of Psychology, revealed that only the vulnerable form of narcissism was significantly related to celebrity worship. 'Notably, perceived similarity and vulnerable narcissism were uniquely predictive of celebrity worship,' they wrote. Previous studies have suggested that the type of car you drive can also indicate you might be a narcissist. Analysis of 2,000 motorists revealed that BMW drivers show the most narcissistic tendencies. Meanwhile, people who opted for personalised licence plates were also more likely to score highly for narcissism. BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES? YOU'RE PROBABLY A NARCISSIST, RESEARCHERS SAY People who doubt the moon landings are more likely to be selfish and attention-seeking, according to a 2015 study. Over the course of three online-based studies, researchers at the University of Kent showed strong links between the belief in conspiracy theories and negative psychological traits. Writing in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, the team explained: 'Previous research linked the endorsement of conspiracy theories to low self-esteem.' In the first study, a total of 202 participants completed questionnaires on conspiracy beliefs, asking how strongly they agreed with specific statements, such as whether governments carried out acts of terrorism on their own soil. Alongside this, they were asked to complete a narcissist scale and a self-esteem assessment. The results showed that those people who rated highly on the narcissism scale and who had low self-esteem were more likely to be conspiracy believers.
The Guardian
5 hours ago
- The Guardian
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3; Two Scherzos album review – deft execution of the Russian's early exuberance
If the key stylistic reference in Shostakovich's symphonies from the Fifth onwards would unmistakably be Mahler, his early symphonies show a much more catholic array of influences, and often hint at other directions his music might have taken had events in the Soviet Union allowed him the freedom of choice. The First Symphony in particular, composed in 1924-25, is an energised bundle of ideas derived from many sources, with the Stravinsky of Petrushka and the early neoclassicism of Paul Hindemith vying for supremacy in music that careers along with sudden changes of direction – alternating exuberance with flashes of pathos – which never fail to surprise. In what is the latest instalment of their Shostakovich series for Chandos, John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic are more effective in maintaining the momentum of the faster music than they are in registering the moments of deeper, darker emotion, so that a crucial dimension often seems to be lacking. It's the rendition of the much less frequently performed and recorded Third Symphony, composed four years after the First, in 1929, that's the more convincing here. In between these works, the Second Symphony, composed for the 10th anniversary of the October revolution in 1927, contained some of the most radical music Shostakovich would ever compose, while the single-movement Third, subtitled 'The First of May' and which ends with a tub-thumping hymn celebrating International Workers Day, takes a step back and is distinctly less iconoclastic. But Storgårds skilfully negotiates its changes of gear and he pairs the symphonies with real curiosities – two pieces, both scherzos, that pre-date even the First Symphony. Scherzo No 1, which Shostakovich designated as his Op 1, was composed in 1919 when he was just 13 years old; it was dedicated to his composition teacher Maximilian Steinberg and shows the influence of Glazunov more than anyone else. While in Scherzo No 2, completed in 1924, Stravinsky has become part of the mix, and the First Symphony is just around the corner. This article includes content hosted on We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as the provider may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click 'Allow and continue'. Listen on Apple Music (above) or Spotify
Daily Mail
7 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Stranger Things actor Mason Dye gets engaged to girlfriend after four years of dating
Stranger Things actor Mason Dye just revealed he secretly got engaged to his girlfriend Carmen Joiner at a lake in their Atlanta, GA neighborhood on Valentine's Day following four years of dating. 'Valentine's Day felt way too obvious, so it completely went over my head,' the bride-to-be recalled to People on Thursday. 'He had the whole evening planned, including fake dinner reservations at one of our favorite restaurants to throw me off. After he proposed, he surprised me with a stay at Chateau Elan in North Georgia, where we celebrated just the two of us and spent the next day at the spa.' Carmen continued: 'When we got home, our family, friends, and our cat Willow were waiting with a party to celebrate! Mason's parents added to the surprise and even drove in from Oklahoma to make everything that much more special.' Joiner and the 31-year-old groom-to-be are scheduled to tie the knot June 7 at the Wychmere Beach Club in Cape Cod, MA after their fifth anniversary. The corporate executive - who works as associate district manager for ADP TotalSource - originally met Mason through a longtime mutual friend, and they went Instagram official (on her page) in 2021.
