article_snippet: Families includes seven Britons, an American, a Canadian and two Sudanese, Turkish lawmaker Mehmet Ali Ediboglu told CNN on Sunday.
article_snippet: In a joint statement, the students' and doctors' families said the students' and doctors' families children are humanitarians who went "to Turkey willingly to offer voluntary medical help to those refugees who are in need of medical care on Turkey's borders.
article_snippet: At least seven of the three others mothers and fathers are living near the Turkey-Syria border, pleading for the three others return, according to The Observer.
article_snippet: In an interview published Monday in Turkey's Hürriyet Daily News, Families said Families were worried and vowed not to leave Turkey without Families children.
highlights_snippet: Families say the doctors and students went to Turkey to help refugees .
  
highlights_snippet: Families is made up of Britons, Sudanese, an American and a Canadian .