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Turkish Man Divorces Wife after learning he is the Father of only One of her Twins

By michael - Last updated: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - Save & Share - Leave a Comment

Bizarre as this may sound, it is apparently true.

Last week, a man in turkey had his suspicions confirmed when he received the DNA results of the three-year-old twin boys he shares with his wife. The DNA testing confirmed that only one of the twins was his, and that the other was fathered by another man, according to reports.

The mother of the twins has maintained that she had been seeing someone else prior to being forced into the marriage. She has since taken out a restraining order against her husband’s relatives and her own because she was receiving death threats.

This type of circumstance isn’t something seen often on Maury Povich. While much more common in animals like cats, dogs, lizards and snakes, there are instances in which twins can arise from two different sets of sperm, called “heteropaternal superfecundation”, and there are many recent news reports of this phenomena occurring all over the world.

A woman may release two eggs, which is very rare in itself, and each of these eggs is then fertilized by one sperm each, creating a set of fraternal twins that may only look as similar to one another as the average siblings. In fact, last year in the United States a set of twins was born to one mother and father of two different races – one twin had much lighter skin, eyes and hair like the mother and the other twin had darker skin, hair and eyes like the father.

In Canada, couples can obtain a divorce due to the marriage breaking down because of adultery without having to go through the mandatory one year separation period prior. We have yet to see a case of heteropaternal superfecundation as a grounds for divorce in Canada but you never know.

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