Turkish authorities rounded up and deported hundreds of Syrian refugees in recent weeks in one of the harshest crackdowns on the refugees in Turkey since the beginning of the civil war.
After being detained, the refugees were reportedly sent back to areas in northern Syria which are plagued by instability and violence.
The mass deportations signalled a shift in Turkey which more recently moved to stem the migrant flows into the country by tightening security along the frontier and increasingly limiting the movements of Syrians within Turkey.