Turkey has started to close some of its border crossings about 130,000 with Syria after Kurdish refugees entered the country and number of refugees seeking shelter in Turkey from the Islamic State group's advance across northern Syria has hit 100,000 in less than a week.
Fuat Oktay whose The head of Turkey's disaster management agency, said the figure relates to Syrians escaping the area near the Syrian border town of Kobani, where fighting has raged between IS and Kurdish fighters since Thursday.
On Sunday there is Turkish security forces clashed with Kurds protesting in solidarity with the refugees. Some protesters were trying to go to Syria for fighting Islamic State (IS).
On Sunday there is Turkish security forces clashed with Kurds protesting in solidarity with the refugees. Some protesters were trying to go to Syria for fighting Islamic State (IS).
Mostly refugees belong to Kobane.In recent month IS has taken over large swathes of Iraq and Syria
Approximately more than one million Syrian rufugee stay in Turkey they against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since three years ago.
Those Who new arrivae are being sheltered in overcrowded schools, as Turkey struggles to cope with the influx.
The UN refugee agency said earlier that about 70,000 Syrians have crossed into Turkey in the past 24 hours, and that it was preparing for the arrival of hundreds of thousands more. Those are significant numbers, even in the context of the 1.5 million refugees who've fled to Turkey in the past three-and-a-half years.
Turkish authorities said they were ready to deal with the influx.
"We have been prepared for this," disaster management agency spokesman Dogan Eskinat said. "We are also prepared for worse."
The refugees, most of them ethnic Kurds, have been desperate to reach Turkey and escape the advance of religious extremists barreling across Syria.
On Sunday, heavy clashes broke out between the Islamic State group and Kurdish fighters only a few miles from Kobani, which is also known as Ayn Arab.
The Islamic State group was bombarding villagers with tanks, artillery and multiple rocket launchers, said Nasser Haj Mansour, an official at the defense office in Syria's Kurdish region.
spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Selin Unal said majority of women and children coming across the Kurdish border.
She urged the international community to step up aid for Syrian refugees in Turkey.
She said 'Turkey is ready to comolete all needs but it's huge numbers,.
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