Turkey overburdened with more than 100,000 Syrian refugees

The U.N. refugee agency has indicated that some 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 foxnews.com .These Syrian refugees are mostly ethnic Kurds and they are desperate to reach Turkey in order to escape the advance of religious extremists that are barreling across Syria.
The number of refugees seeking shelter in Turkey from the Islamic State group's advance across northeastern Syria has reportedly hit 100,000, as clashes broke out on the border between Turkish security guards and Kurds.
As per information furnished by the head of Turkey's AFAD disaster management agency, Fuat Oktay, the figure relates to Syrians who are escaping from the area near the Syrian border town of Kobani, where fighting is currently raging between IS and Kurdish fighters.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has revealed that the Islamic State group has taken control of 64 villages in northeastern Syria since the fighting began there and the fate of 800 Kurds from these villages is unknown. It seems the Islamic State group have executed 11 civilians, including two boys.
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