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

Nearly two years after she disappeared from social media, a Russian ‘mumfluencer’ who welcomed 21 children via surrogacy with her criminal millionaire husband has finally made a comeback. 

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.