More than 130,000 Syrian Kurds have crossed the border into Turkey in the past three days as they flee the advance of Islamic State militants, according to the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister.
Numan Kurtulmus said his government was now 'prepared for the worst scenario, which is an influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees'.
Over 60,000 refugees, mainly Syrian Kurds, have fled across the border into Turkey this weekend, Turkish authorities have said.
Some 66,000 fled violence in their homeland in less than 24 hours after Turkey opened its border to Syrians fleeing the town of Kobane in fear of an Islamic State assault.
In some places along the frontier Turkish police clashed with protesters and aid workers trying to help the refugees from Syria's bloody civil war.
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