Syrian refugees flee across border to Turkey - in pictures

Syrian refugee children flash V-signs at a Turkish Red Crescent camp in the Altinozu district of Hatay, near the Syrian border Photograph: Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images

Syrian refugees wait for a medical checkup at a Turkish Red Crescent camp in Hatay Photograph: Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images

A Syrian refugee walks among the tents at a Turkish Red Crescent camp in Hatay Photograph: Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images

Syrian refugees in the Turkish town of Yayladagi celebrate after hearing a false rumour that President Bashar al-Assad had been swept from power Photograph: Scott Peterson/Getty Images

Syrian refugees hold up Arabic and Turkish placards at a Turkish Red Crescent camp in Hatay Photograph: Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images

Syrian refugees move their belongings into a camp set up by the Turkish Red Crescent in the Turkish town of Yayladagi Photograph: Burhan Ozbilici/AP

A Turkish soldier stands by as a group of Syrians wait inside Syria for authorisation to enter Turkey near the Turkish village of Guvecci in Hatay province, Turkey, which borders Syria Photograph: Burhan Ozbilici/AP

A Syrian refugee walks besides tents at the Turkish Red Crescent camp in the Yayladagi district of Turkey, close to the city of Hatay Photograph: Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images

A Syrian woman waits beside her wounded husband at a hospital near the city of Hatay, close to the border Photograph: Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images

Two Syrian injured men talk with a journalist at a hospital in Hatay Photograph: Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images

Syrian refugees who fled from Syria to Turkey leave the Yayladagi Turkish Red Crescent refugee camp by bus Photograph: Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images

Syrian refugees wait to enter Turkey on the border with Syria outside the city of Hatay Photograph: Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images

Turkish soldiers patrol as Syrian refugees (in the background) wait to be transported to the Turkish side of the border with Syria, near the village of Guvecci in Hatay province Photograph: Ismihan Ozguven/anatolian Agency/EPA

Refugees walk behind the fence of a refugee camp in the Turkish border town of Yayladagi Photograph: Osman Orsal/Reuters

A tray of food lies next to a wounded Syrian man on a hospital bed in Antakya city, Hatay province, also close to the Syrian border Photograph: Osman Orsal/Reuters