A number of British medics are reported to have travelled from Sudan to Syria to work in hospitals in areas controlled by Islamic State (IS).
The students were part of a group of 11 people who crossed into Syria last week without warning their parents, Turkish MP Mehmet Ali Ediboglu told Sky News.
Mr Ediboglu, who is assisting the families, said seven members of the group have British passports.
The others are an American, a Canadian and two Sudanese students.
One of the women informed her family of the trip via WhatsApp, he said.
The British students had been studying in Sudan because their parents wanted them to experience a more Islamic culture, but they were born and raised in Britain.
One of the girls, Lena Maumoon Abdulqadir, sent her sister a WhatsApp message with a picture of her smiling on a bus saying: "Don't worry about us, we've reached Turkey and are on our way to volunteer helping wounded Syrian people."
All of the students are sending daily messages to their families reassuring them they are OK, but there is no indication where they are, the MP told Sky News.
Some of the students' families are concerned the group may have gone to help by working as doctors for a militant group, possibly IS.
"She was living in (Africa) a land which needs a lot of doctors everywhere," Lena's father Maumoon Abdulqadir told Turkey's Birgün newspaper.
"Why would she go all the way to Syria for volunteering?"
Mr Ediboglu understands the group flew from Khartoum to Istanbul and then travelled by bus to the border.
He earlier told The Observer newspaper the students had travelled to Syria to "help, not to fight".
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are providing consular assistance to the families.
"We have informed the Turkish police to try to ascertain their whereabouts.
"The best way for the public to help is to donate to or otherwise support UK-registered charities with ongoing relief operations."
The Home Office said: "The UK advises against all travel to Syria and parts of Iraq.
"Anyone who does travel to these areas, even for humanitarian reasons, is putting themselves in considerable danger."
It comes as British authorities continue efforts to trace three missing schoolgirls from east London who left Britain to join IS.
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