Turkmen mother Fatma Birinci (L), 42, and her daughter Gade Birinci (R), 21 (Picture: Getty Images)

A mother and daughter have given birth side by side in a hospital.

Fatma Birinci, 42, and her daughter Gade Birinci, 21, underwent Caesarean sections while lying next to each other at an institution in Konya, Turkey.

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Both babies were in a healthy condition following the procedure earlier today, Turkish news media Ensonhaber reported.

The new mothers from Syria named their babies Recep and Tayyip after the current president of Turkey – Recep Tayyip Erdogan.


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Newborn baby named Recep (Picture: Getty Images)

Newborn baby named Tayyip (Picture: Getty Images)

Dr Erkan Atas was in charge of the operation and said: ‘This is an event that I have never heard of.



‘They have escaped from the war into our country and have taken refuge in Turkey for three years.

Another lead physician Naim Unsal described it as a ‘miracle’ birth’.

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Turkmen mother Fatma Birinci (L), 42, and her daughter Gade Birinci (R), 21 Picture: Getty Images)

The mother and daughter moved to Konya after fleeing the war in Syria, their native country, in 2014.

They discovered their pregnancies within days of each other.

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