A grandmother from Turkey claims to be the oldest woman in the world

An old woman in Turkey, Seker Arslan closed last Sunday at 119 and thus is considered the longest-lived grandmother in the world. According to her driver’s license, Mrs. Arslan was born on June 27, 1902.

As reported by Daily Mail Seker has six children, 12 grandchildren and seems to have inherited longevity from her mother, who is said to have lived to be 110 years old. Her daughter, Serap Jueksel, believes her mother’s many years are due to her diet of butter, honey and cheese.

“She made her own yogurt and had boiled eggs for breakfast,” Serap said, adding that while her mother has Alzheimer’s, she is otherwise healthy. The only thing the centuries-old woman regretted was that she did not have great-grandchildren.

The 119-year-old grandmother was not defeated by COVID19 either, despite the fact that her family members fell ill. The old woman has lived through both World Wars, the Spanish Flu, the Cold War and the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Local officials believe Arslan broke the longevity record of Kane Tanaka of Japan, who was born six months later on January 2, 1903.

It is worth noting that the oldest person ever recorded was the French Jean Calment.

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