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SATURDAY Vanguard, FEBRUARY 20, 2021—23<br />
C<br />
hristina Ozturk, 23, only gave<br />
birth to one child naturally<br />
before setting up a programme to<br />
select multiple surrogate mothers<br />
and have as many kids as possible.<br />
A young mum who already has 11<br />
babies hopes to have dozens more<br />
<strong>us</strong>ing surrogate mothers.<br />
Christina Ozturk, 23, lives with her<br />
millionaire hotel owner h<strong>us</strong>band<br />
Galip Ozturk in the coastal town of<br />
Batumi in the former Soviet republic<br />
of Georgia where the practice is<br />
legal.<br />
And after 10 babies, including one<br />
that the mum gave birth to naturally,<br />
the couple have got the process down<br />
to a fine art.<br />
They mentioned on social media<br />
they wanted at least 105 but later<br />
admitted that number was a joke.<br />
All of the potential candidates go<br />
through counselling and sign legal<br />
paperwork before becoming<br />
pregnant with children that are<br />
genetically from Christina and her<br />
h<strong>us</strong>band.<br />
he young mum, who is originally<br />
from Moscow, R<strong>us</strong>sia, was a single<br />
mother when she decided to take a<br />
break to the subtropical paradise<br />
referred to as the ‘Las Vegas of the<br />
Black Sea’.<br />
She said it was love at first sight<br />
when she met Galip on the first day<br />
there, and described him as her<br />
“mentor, guide and fairytale prince<br />
all rolled into one”.<br />
For his part, he confirmed it was<br />
love at first sight as well. “She is so<br />
easy to be with, she always has a smile<br />
on her lips and yet at the same time<br />
is shy and mysterio<strong>us</strong>.<br />
“She was the kind of wife I always<br />
wanted for myself, an uncut diamond<br />
where I saw what a pure and kind<br />
heart she had,” he said.<br />
After the meeting things moved<br />
quickly, with Christina taking her<br />
little daughter Vika with her and<br />
moving to Batumi.<br />
The couple also agreed that they<br />
wanted as many children as<br />
possible, but they were ambitio<strong>us</strong><br />
and realised quickly that her<br />
reproductive ability was not enough<br />
to meet their demands.<br />
So they decided to get involved in<br />
<strong>us</strong>ing surrogate mothers, which<br />
works out at a cost of around EUR<br />
8,000 (£7,000) for everything<br />
involved.<br />
She said: “At the moment, I have<br />
10 children with the latest addition,<br />
Olivia, who arrived at the end of last<br />
month.<br />
08116759759<br />
Young mum, 23, already has 11 1 kids and<br />
wants dozens more with wealthy h<strong>us</strong>band<br />
“I gave birth to my eldest daughter<br />
Vika myself six years ago.<br />
“The rest of the children are<br />
genetically ours from my h<strong>us</strong>band<br />
and I, but were carried by<br />
surrogates.”<br />
On social media they have spoken<br />
about having 105 children but admit<br />
this was j<strong>us</strong>t a random number.<br />
She added: “I don’t k<strong>now</strong> how<br />
many they will eventually be, but we<br />
certainly don’t plan to stop at 10.”<br />
She said: “We j<strong>us</strong>t not ready to talk<br />
about the final number. Everything<br />
has its time.”<br />
While admitting it is more difficult<br />
to raise a large family than she<br />
assumed, she said she had planned<br />
at first to have a baby every year<br />
before she learned about surrogacy.<br />
A clinic deals with the surrogate<br />
mothers, while Christina and Galip<br />
monitor health indicators and set a<br />
meal plan during pregnancy.<br />
The couple only choose young<br />
women who have already had at<br />
least one pregnancy, and have no<br />
addictions.<br />
One surrogate had trouble giving<br />
up the baby but legally had no rights<br />
and had to hand it over.<br />
Georgia has allowed surrogacy<br />
since 1997 as long as the couple<br />
involved are heterosexual and<br />
married.<br />
While still <strong>us</strong>ing surrogates,<br />
Christina has not ruled out having<br />
other babies herself but said it<br />
currently not practical while IVF is<br />
a big strain on her body.<br />
Christina said people assume she<br />
has an army of nannies while she<br />
lives the high life, but claims she<br />
actually spends all day with her<br />
children.<br />
Police officer<br />
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ows s after parking fee scam<br />
Murder Riddle<br />
A<br />
HUSBAND who allegedly<br />
threw his pregnant wife off a<br />
cliff after posing for a selfie with her<br />
tried to claim her life insurance and<br />
took out loans in her name.<br />
Hakan Aysal, 40, was arrested for<br />
the murder of his wife Semra Aysal,<br />
32, and their unborn baby while on<br />
holiday in Butterfly Valley in Mugla,<br />
Turkey.<br />
Prosecutors allege Aysal brutally<br />
p<strong>us</strong>hed his wife off the 1,000ft cliff so<br />
that he could cash in on the insurance<br />
he had taken out on her life.<br />
The seven-months pregnant<br />
woman and her unborn child were<br />
both instantly killed following the<br />
incident in June 2018.<br />
The couple had been taking<br />
pictures on the cliff, and prosecutors<br />
say the “accident” was in fact murder<br />
carried out by the h<strong>us</strong>band.<br />
They claimed his motive was<br />
cashing in on the insurance he<br />
previo<strong>us</strong>ly took out.<br />
In the indictment prepared for the<br />
crime of “deliberate murder”<br />
against the h<strong>us</strong>band, it <strong>state</strong>d he<br />
planned the ordeal in order to get<br />
the guarantee of £40,865 from<br />
insurance.<br />
Prosecutors claimed that the only<br />
reason they sat on top of the cliff for<br />
three hours was so that he could<br />
make sure no one was around.<br />
As soon as he realised they were<br />
alone, he deliberately killed her by<br />
p<strong>us</strong>hing her off the cliff, according<br />
to prosecutors.<br />
The indictment also noted that<br />
Aysal had claimed the insurance<br />
payment a short while later, but it<br />
was declined when news of the<br />
investigation was<br />
unveiled.<br />
The Fethiye High<br />
Criminal Court has ruled<br />
that he be remanded in<br />
c<strong>us</strong>tody for premeditated<br />
murder.<br />
In a video interview, the<br />
court heard from the<br />
victim’s brother, Naim<br />
Yolcu, who said: “When we<br />
went to the Forensic<br />
Medicine Institute to get<br />
the body, Hakan was<br />
sitting in the car.<br />
“My family and I were<br />
destroyed, but Hakan did<br />
not even appear sad.”<br />
He added: “My sister was always<br />
against taking out loans. However,<br />
after she died, we learned that she<br />
had three loans taken by Hakan on<br />
behalf of my sister.<br />
“Also, Hakan had a fear of heights,<br />
what extreme sport is she going to<br />
be doing when she is scared of<br />
heights?”<br />
Asked about the questionable<br />
insurance premiums, Aysal said: “I<br />
have been interested in extreme<br />
sports since 2014; parachute,<br />
bungee jumping, rafting. That is why<br />
I had life insurance before I got<br />
married.”<br />
Aysal was also asked about the<br />
article in the accident personal<br />
insurance which <strong>state</strong>d that he was<br />
the heir if she died.<br />
Aysal said: “I did not examine the<br />
policy much. The banker arranged<br />
the paperwork.<br />
“I j<strong>us</strong>t brought it to my wife to get it<br />
signed. I was not aware that there<br />
was such an article.”<br />
He has denied being responsible<br />
for her death, saying: “After taking a<br />
photo, my wife put the phone in her<br />
bag.<br />
“Later she asked me to give her the<br />
phone. I got up and then heard my<br />
wife scream behind me when I<br />
walked a few steps away to get the<br />
phone from her bag.<br />
he teenagers were demanding<br />
Tmotorists pay a parking charge<br />
in a beach side car park in South<br />
Sulawesi, Indonesia, with the <strong>police</strong><br />
taking the odd step to stop them committing<br />
the scam again.<br />
Two teenagers had their eyebrows<br />
shaved off by <strong>police</strong> officers as punishment<br />
for an alleged parking fees<br />
scam.<br />
Video footage shows the two boys<br />
having their brows lopped off by a<br />
razer after they reportedly admitted<br />
to extorting money from motorists<br />
in Indonesia.<br />
The pair are said to have been ordering<br />
charges from tourists on a<br />
road overlooking the Losari Beach<br />
in South Sulawesi province on October<br />
31.<br />
And when the <strong>police</strong> got involved,<br />
rather than take them to a <strong>police</strong> station<br />
they decided to teach the boys a<br />
strange lesson.<br />
One tourist had called the <strong>police</strong><br />
after ref<strong>us</strong>ing the teens’ demands,<br />
who are said to have also threatened<br />
him.<br />
Officers eventually found the alleged<br />
culprits and they are reported<br />
to have admitted to the scam and<br />
apologised in front of the motorist.<br />
Iman Hud, Makassar public order<br />
chief Back in Makassar, said the<br />
punishment was supposed to “discourage”<br />
them from further wrongdoing.<br />
“The punishment serves as a light<br />
sanction so that they do not repeat<br />
their actions,” he said, adding beach<br />
parking fees were scrapped in 2015<br />
to help tourism.<br />
“The two young men forced the<br />
owner of the vehicle to pay the parking<br />
fees. They even dared to threaten<br />
them,” he said.<br />
The footage shows the bewildered<br />
kids looking a little distressed as an<br />
officer in a face mask <strong>us</strong>es a razor.<br />
Odd punishments may seem a<br />
thing of the past, but there are still<br />
plenty of examples in recent years.<br />
In Ohio, US, a woman was reportedly<br />
ordered to spend a night in the<br />
woods after abandoning 35 kittens<br />
in a park.<br />
She was also given the choice of<br />
jail, ho<strong>us</strong>e arrest or a large charitable<br />
donation, but opted to stay overnight<br />
in the woods with j<strong>us</strong>t the<br />
clothes on her back.<br />
The same judge had reportedly<br />
also ordered a man to stand on a<br />
street corner with a pig and a sign<br />
saying “This is not a <strong>police</strong> officer”<br />
after calling some officers pigs.