Thousands of Syrian migrants have until Tuesday to leave Istanbul or face expulsion from Turkey's biggest city ... the border and saw the Turkish flag behind me, I realised I hated it because ...

Fighters waved flags and tore down the statue of a ... another city near the border. Backed by Turkey, the Free Syrian Army is a rebel group operating in the north of the country.

The Turkish-language signs and red flags bearing white crescents ... in addition to several thousand Turkmen refugees from Syria, where their population is approximately 1.5 million.