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'.
The number of Syrians who have crossed the border into Turkey to escape Islamic State militants has reached 100,000, Turkiish authorities have said.
A majority of them are Syrian Kurds, and their arrival since last Thursday has pushed Syria's violent internal conflict dangerously close to the Turkish frontier.
Islamic State militants has in recent days advanced into Kurdish regions of Syria that border Turkey, where fleeing refugees reported atrocities that included stonings, beheadings and the torching of homes.
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