The BBC has been given a video showing Turkish coastguard using sticks against a boat full of migrants as they sail to Greece in the Aegean Sea.
The incident is said to have happened in Turkish waters as the migrants were on their way to the island of Lesbos.
The migrants accused the coastguard of attacking them, but the coastguard say they were trying to stop the boat without harming the occupants.
The EU and Turkey are discussing new moves to curb the flow of refugees.
Europe is facing its biggest refugee crisis since World War Two. Last year, more than a million people entered the EU illegally by boat, mainly going from Turkey to Greece.
More than 132,000 migrants have arrived by boat into Greece so far this year - a large increase on the same period last year.

The incident captured on the video is thought to have occurred in Turkish waters opposite the island early on Saturday.
The 30-second clip shows people wearing life jackets on a rubber dinghy being hit with poles by men standing on another vessel. The people on the boat shout out in Farsi and Arabic.
The boat of migrants eventually moved away and made it to Lesbos.

A Turkish coast guard official later confirmed the incident, but said the officers had been trying to stop the engine "without harming the refugees".
He said the standard procedure was to tie migrant vessels to a coast guard boat and bring it back to Turkey, "but this boat of refugees didn't stop the engine and continued on to Greece," he added.
Our correspondent says he has heard of similar incidents involving other migrants.

Most of the migrants reaching Greece are Syrian, fleeing the country's four-year civil war. Another 2.7 million Syrian refugees are currently in Turkey, which is struggling to cope with the influx.
Under the measures discussed by EU leaders and Turkey on Monday, which still need to be agreed, migrants arriving in Greece would be returned to Turkey. For each Syrian sent back, a Syrian already in Turkey would be resettled in the EU.
The EU promised to speed up payment of €3bn ($3.3bn; £2.2bn) promised in October to help Turkey deal with the crisis, with the possibility of additional funding.
Plans to ease access to the EU for Turkish citizens will also be speeded up, with a view to allowing visa-free travel by June.
Hungary's anti-migration PM Viktor Orban has already indicated he may veto the resettlement deal.
The provisional deal, which has been criticised by the UN refugee agency, will be discussed at another meeting of EU and Turkish leaders in Brussels next week.
The crisis has led eight EU members to introduce temporary border controls, leading to fears over the future of the Schengen agreement - the deal which allows passport-free travel across 26 member countries.

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