More than 4 million people have fled Syria since the start of its civil war in 2011. Many of them are living in refugee camps around Europe and the Middle East as conflict ravages the home they left behind.
Umit Bektas, a Turkey-based photographer for Reuters, has spent years documenting the lives of those who have been pushed into exile. His most recent project saw him visit refugee camps and ask children to draw their memories of home and their hopes for the future.
He visited the Yayladagi camp, which is home to 2,400 refugees and sits on the Turkish side of the border with Syria. It's a growing community and has a school, a rehabilitation centre for kids, and a small clinic.
Bektas told Business Insider that while he was photographing the children, explosions from Russian airstrikes could be heard just miles away on the other side of the border.
This is 11-year-old Islem Halife posing with a drawing of her home in Syria. Bektas says that the children are often happy, but the civil war is a perpetually underlying concern.
Even children as young as 6-year-old Gays Cardak have a lot to say about the conflict, but, according to Bektas, they remain hopeful that one day they'll return to Syria.
Thousands of people live in Yayladagi Refugee Camp, and an increasing number of them are children.
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