Nine British medics feared to have crossed into Syria
The students are believed to have travelled to Syria more than a week ago
Nine British medical students and doctors are feared to have travelled to Syria to work in areas controlled by Islamic State militants.
The group, all in their late teens or early 20s, had been studying medicine in Sudan.
Some of their relatives, who have travelled to the Turkish-Syrian border, told the BBC they were gravely concerned about their welfare.
The medics are believed to have entered Syria more than a week ago.
BBC Turkey correspondent Mark Lowen said some in the group had sent messages to their parents saying they were doing voluntary work to help Syrians.
Our correspondent, who described the group as British-Sudanese, said their families had travelled to Gaziantep in southern Turkey to try to find them.
One of the fathers said he was not getting enough support from British and Turkish authorities and did not understand how Turkey allowed such a large group to cross the border.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are providing consular assistance to their families and we have informed the Turkish police to try and ascertain their whereabouts."
The agonising wait goes on for the British-Sudanese families hoping for news of their children.
The father of one of the missing medics has told me he no longer holds out hope that they are still in Turkey and is convinced they've already crossed into an area of Syria controlled by so-called Islamic State.
The group is 13-strong, mainly British-Sudanese and were studying at a faculty in Khartoum, where the fear is they may have been radicalised and recruited by IS.
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