The sudden , massive flood of refugees fleeing ISIS is unlike any other displacement in the 3½-year Syrian conflict . As many as 200,000 people have left the area surrounding the Syrian Kurdish city of Kobani , also known as Ayn al-Arab , in just four days as ISIS advances into the area , the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday . Most have gone into Turkey , the London-based monitoring group said . Turkey 's semiofficial Anadolu news agency and the United Nations said 130,000 Syrian refugees have entered Turkey since Friday . But the unprecedented surge that broke loose Friday has slowed , as Turkey reduced the number of open crossings from eight or nine to just two , said Ariane Rummery , a spokeswoman for the U.N. refugee agency . Processing the refugees is also taking time . New arrivals are being searched for arms , receiving medical checks , being identified and receiving ID cards that they can use in Turkey to show their status to local authorities . `` Children are being vaccinated , '' Rummery said . Fight to prevent massacre . Inside Syria , a Kurdish official complained about the border becoming more difficult to cross . `` Now , they stop people and make a procedure before letting them in , '' Idris Nassan said in Kobani . The town is fighting ISIS with determination , he said . `` Every moment of every second of every day , we have clashes ongoing outside the center of Kobani , '' Nassan said . But ISIS , which also calls itself the `` Islamic State , '' has bigger , better weapons than the Kurdish People 's Protection Units , known as YPG , the initials for their name in Kurdish . `` ISIS brought weapons from Iraq and Raqqa . They have tanks , RPGs , cannons , '' Nassan said . Turkish Kurds help . But Kurdish fighters from Turkey are crossing into Syria to help . `` I saw groups of them last night walking inside the city , getting ready to go to the fighting , '' Nassan said . `` Some were experienced fighters and others civilian volunteers to help the resistance . '' New men arrive every day and are eager to join . `` It helps with morale , '' Nassan said . It 's making a difference . `` Over the last two days , YPG has been making progress . Before that , ISIS was advancing , and YPG was retreating , but the situation has changed now , and the YPG is making a strong response , '' Nassan said . Kobani may be hanging on , but ISIS has captured some 60 villages in recent days , according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights . The terror group 's fighters took 39 villages on Friday alone , as Kurdish forces withdrew from their positions . The fight is no longer about holding on to their hometowns , Kurdish activist Mostafa Baly said from Kobani . `` It is about resisting the attack by ISIS and defending 50,000 Kurds from a massacre . '' Turmoil in Turkey . ISIS ' offensive is stoking tensions in Turkey . As Turkish Kurds have responded to their ethnic brothers and sisters in Syria , friction has heated up between the Kurdistan Workers Party and Turkish security forces , who used tear gas and water cannons against them in several clashes . The number of Syrian refugees now in Turkey since the beginning of the conflict is approaching 1.6 million , according to the Turkish government . Turkey may now feel freer to join the fight against ISIS . Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that the release of 49 Turkish citizens taken hostage when ISIS took control of Mosul , Iraq 's second-largest city , has removed a barrier to Turkey joining an international coalition to fight the terrorists .
As many as 2000 people have fled a Syrian Kurdish area , a monitor group says . Kurdish fighters from Turkey are gathering on the ground to join the fight against ISIS . Official : ` ` ISIS brought weapons from Iraq and Raqqa . They have tanks , RPGs , cannons '' The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey surpasses 130,000 , a U.N. report says .