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1,30,000 Syrian refugees reach Turkey fleeing IS

The number of Syrian refugees who have reached Turkey in the past four days after fleeing the advance of IS militants now totals 1,30,000, Turkey’s deputy prime minister said on Monday. Numan Kurtulmus said Turkey is prepared for ‘the worst case scenario’ should more refugees stream in. The refugees have been flooding into Turkey since Thursday, escaping an IS offensive that has pushed the conflict nearly within eyeshot of the Turkish border.

The group, which has established an Islamic state, ruled by its harsh version of Islamic law in territory it captured straddling the Syria-Iraq border, has in recent days advanced into Kurdish regions of Syria that border Turkey, where fleeing refugees on Sunday reported atrocities that included stonings and beheadings.

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