Screen capture from the video.

The Syrians pick up cigarette butts and put them in the blue bucket.



One of the Syrians is quite clearly injured in the video.

The army arrested the soldiers



"Why are you coming to Turkey? Where are you going? To Istanbul? What is there in Turkey?" shouts the soldier who is filming the scene, while his colleagues kick and punch the Syrian men before hitting them with one of their truncheons.The soldier filming accuses one of the Syrians of being a trafficker. "Why did you help refugees cross the border? Are you a trafficker?” he asks while he's beating the man on the ground. Then he goes back to his colleagues, to whom he gives an order: "Hit them!" One soldier starts kicking the man. The one filming and another soldier join in. One of the soldiers tells the man on the ground, "Don't cry!"After hitting them with a truncheon, one of the soldiers asks his colleague, "Hey, will you send me the video on WhatsApp?" The third soldier slaps one of the Syrians and calls him "son of a whore".During the video, the four Syrians seem to be gathering cigarette butts and putting them in a blue bucket, which could potentially be a punishment ordered by the soldiers. Then the soldiers command them to get up. One of them is holding his stomach and has to be carried by the three others."The personnel who carried out inacceptable acts have been detained and the necessary legal action has been taken against them", the Turkish armed forces declared in a statement on July 30, confirming that the video was filmed on July 28 at around 11am, between the villages of Seferli and Sivri in Hatay province. The video was then shared over WhatsApp, primarily via a contact of the man who filmed the attack, who lives in Germany.The video was met with indignation by Turkish social media. "When you watch that without the sound turned up, you could think that they are Assad's soldiers who are torturing Syrians. It's a shock when you turn on the sound...", wrote one Turkish viewer who published the video on Twitter