Nearly 2,000 of Syrian refugees are in a stand-off with the police for two days in the northwestern Turkish city, which is a transit point for Syrian refugees en route to Greece.

Şahin said that if any country says it will take the Syrian refugees, Turkey will send them by responding to the official call. “But there is no country which has officially invited them,” he told reporters after the prayer.

Edirne governor earlier said on Sep. 16 that Syrian refugees, who arrived in Edirne in an attempt to reach Greece, were given a period of three days to return to Istanbul. "If they don't return in this amount of time, they would sent back by using force."

Syrian refugees, who fled the civil war in their country, wended their way to Edirne over a claim that Greece will open its border to refugees on Tuesday.

The huge crowd, including women and children, had been walking along the international TEM highway after the claim was circulated over the social media on Monday evening.

Ahmed Ellatif, one of the spokesperson of the group, said the hunger strike would continue until the authority allows them to cross the border into Greece.

“We already have accepted the risk of death. We will continue our hunger strike till we are permitted to go to the Greek border," he said.

They rejected to accept food and water provided by official authorities and some local NGOs. The group canted, “Europe, Europe; Erdoğan, Erdoğan."

Edirne Governor Dursun Ali Şahin reiterated his decision to stop refugees from crossing the border. “We declared the 15-kilometer-long borderline as a forbidden area for refugees," Şahin said.

The officials are trying to convince them to go back to their country or to refugee camps in Turkey. Şahin said about 8,000 refugees reached Edirne after Sep. 10, and most of them had returned while nearly 800 people were insisting on staying.

“I hope they also will be convinced," he said, and added that they must return within three days.

On the other hand, hundreds of refugees continue to camp out at the Istanbul bus terminal for a fourth day, while many others found some way - mostly by walking - to Edirne, as bus companies refused to sell tickets. They spent another night sleeping on the grass.

They were captured by Edirne gendarmerie forces, while the gendarmerie was patrolling the villages of Bosnaköy and Yenikadın and the border districts of Uzunköprü and Meriç.

The immigrants were reported as coming from Syria, Palestine and Myanmar.

After their legal procedures were completed, the captured migrants were sent to the Edirne Security Directorate Foreign Affairs.