Turkey has allowed thousands of Syrian kurds fleeing Islamic State militants to cross its southern border, Turkey Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu said.
Turkey decided to permit the Syrians to cross over after reports emerged that militants were closing in on their communities. A day earlier, Turkish authorities refused entry.
The Islamic State group has taken over more than 20 Kurdish villages since Wednesday in north eastern Syria as the extremists try to crush one of the last pockets of resistance against their rule there, the Kurdish-controlled area known as Kobani.
Turkey is already home to nearly 850,000 registered Syrian refugees.
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