Yayladagi, Turkey (CNN) -- More than 200 Syrians who have fled their country gathered in a Turkish cemetery on a hot afternoon, awaiting the bodies of five people killed for a cause they all shared.
Men stood at the entrance, chanting prayers and slogans against the Syrian regime, while in another part of the cemetery women and children wept.
The funeral Saturday in Yayladagi marked just some of the latest deaths of rebel Free Syrian Army fighters. According to their relatives at a refugee camp in the area near the Syrian border, the five were killed inside a house in their sleep by Syrian security forces in Idlib Province.
These fighters escaped Syria with their families, arriving at a camp in Turkey. Turkey does not consider them refugees.
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