A report has revealed that officials said about 66,000 refugees, mostly Syrian Kurds, have crossed into Turkey in the last 24 hours following advances by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in northern Syria.
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus confirmed on Saturday that the number of Syrian refugees who have entered Turkey has exceeded 60,000, reported the BBC.
Turkey, which shares its border with Iraq and Syria, opened its frontier to the Syrians fleeing the Kurdish town of Kobane on Friday.
The country has already taken in more than 847,000 refugees since the beginning of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad three years ago.
IS has captured large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.