In pictures: From Kobane to Suruc - life in the refugee camps

Suruc, a Turkish city some 35 kilometres south-east of Kobane over the border with Syria, has become a temporary home to thousands of Syrian Kurdish refugees.

They fled the fight for control of their home-town of Kobane - Islamic State fighters have been battling against units from the PKK, backed up by US-led airstrikes, for weeks.

Tens of thousands of people have to date escaped from Kobane – large numbers of them have ended up in the three tented camps of Suruc, set up in late September after Turkish authorities allowed the Syrian Kurds to cross the border to safety.

One of the Suruc camps is Arin Mirkhan, named after a Syrian Kurdish fighter who blew herself at an IS camp on the outskirts of Kobane on 5 October.

The camp suffers from a severe lack of services – families say there is not enough food or medicine to go around.

The camp is run by unpaid volunteers, many of them Turkish Kurds. Some of them opened a school to allow the camp’s children to continue their education – the school depends on the efforts of a small number of teachers, and does not follow a defined curriculum.

Ahmed, one of the many residents of Suruc who has been volunteering in the camps in his town, told Deutsche Welle on Tuesday that he had worked a 12-hour day.

“If we don’t help them, who will?”