Turkey has begun to close some of its border crossings with Syria following an influx of nearly 100,000 Kurdish refugees over the weekend to escape an offensive by jihadists from the self-styled Islamic State.
The Turkish government estimates the number of refugees crossing the Turkish border is closer to 130,000.
Speaking to reporters in Ankara, the country's deputy prime minister, Numan Kurtulmus, said Turkey was "prepared for the worst scenario, which is an influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees".
Syrian Kurds are leaving the area around Ain al-Arab, or Kobane, as the town is known in Kurdish, which is under attack by IS.
Until now, Kobane, the third biggest Kurdish population centre in Syria, had been relatively safe and had taken in 200,000 people displaced from elsewhere in Syria.
IS has captured more than 60 villages around Kobane over the past five days, which has triggered an exodus of terrified civilians.
Forty-two people, including 16 children, were killed by the Syrian government in air strikes yesterday, according to a human rights group.
The strikes were carried out yesterday in the largely rebel-held province of Idlib.
The US and France are carrying out air strikes against IS targets across Iraq and are seeking to build an international coalition against the group, which is increasingly perceived as a global threat.
The jihadists, who have declared a "caliphate" straddling Iraq and Syria, control swathes of territory in both countries.
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