13萬敘利亞庫爾德人逃往土耳其

Turkish officials say More than 130,000 Syrian Kurds have crossed into Turkey since late last week in order to flee an advance by Islamic State militants.

Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Monday the government is expecting the number to rise, and is prepared for "the worst case scenario."

Turkey has already taken in about 850,000 Syrian refugees since a civil war began there in March, 2011. Some 300,000 of them have arrived this year.

The latest influx has come as the Islamic State group pushed into Kurdish areas of northern Syria during the past week.

The expansion north of its stronghold in Raqqa, Syria, adds to the areas where the group has taken control in the eastern part of the country as well as large parts of northern and western Iraq.

The Kurdistan Workers Party has issued a call to arms for Turkish Kurds to defend Syria's border towns.土耳其官員說，自上星期晚些時候以來，已經有超過13萬敘利亞庫爾德人越過邊界進入土耳其，以躲避伊斯蘭國激進分子的進攻。

土耳其副總理庫爾圖爾穆什星期一說，政府預計這個數字還將增加，並做好了應對“最壞情況”的準備。

自敘利亞2011年3月爆發內戰以來，土耳其已經接收了大約85萬敘利亞難民。其中30萬左右是今年逃往土耳其的。

最新的難民潮是伊斯蘭國激進組織上星期進入敘利亞北部庫爾德人地區引起的。

伊斯蘭國激進分子已經控制了敘利亞東部以及伊拉克北部和西部大片地區。最近他們擴大了在敘利亞城市拉卡據點以北的地區。

庫爾德工人的呼籲武裝土耳其庫爾德人，保衛敘利亞邊境城鎮。