EU-Turkey deal: officials in the dark as deadline looms

Those that are now on Lesbos will not be sent back, though with Macedonia's border still closed, they face an uncertain road ahead.

"There is nothing for us in Turkey. No life, no work. I worked bad jobs for 700 lira (£170) a month, I could not put a roof over my family's head," said Samir, a teacher from Damascus who had been in the camp for five days. "If they told me I had to go back, I would drown myself in the sea."''