Turkey Opens Border To Syrian Kurds Fleeing IS -- BBC
Turkey has allowed thousands of Syrian Kurds fleeing Islamic State (IS) militants to cross its southern border, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.
TV footage showed exhausted people, mostly women and children, crossing into the south-eastern border village of Dikmetas under tight security.
The move followed clashes with Turkish Kurd protesters who were calling for the refugees to be allowed in.
Syrian Kurds have been massing along the Turkish border since Thursday.
They have been fleeing escalating clashes between IS and Kurdish fighters in the area.
Turkey - which shares a border with Iraq and Syria - has taken in more than 847,000 Syrian refugees since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in 2011.
It is under pressure from Western countries to stem the flow of foreign fighters joining Islamic State.
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