ANKARA, Turkey (Reuters) — A Turkish couple was so determined to have more sons that they ended up with 25 children — only four of whom were boys, Turkish media reported on Tuesday.

The Turkish Daily News said Nihat Kurt, a 50-year-old unemployed construction worker in Duzkoy in the Black Sea province of Trabzon, had married his wife at the age of 15.

"We had our daughters but still wanted to have a son, so we continued having children," Kurt was quoted as saying. "Finally our 11th child was a boy. We have 25 children, the eldest is 33, and the youngest is 4."

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Kurt and his wife have 10 grandchildren.

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