Syrian Kurds Fleeing The Islamic State Militants Cross Into Turkey

SANLIURFA, TURKEY - SEPTEMBER 27: A Turkish APC guards on the borderline as Kurdish Syrian refugees wait near the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province of Turkey, September 27, 2014. Nearly 140,000 Syrian Kurds have fled into Turkey since last week, the fastest exodus of the entire three-year civil war. The United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday it was making contingency plans in case all 400,000 inhabitants of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani fled into Turkey to escape advancing Islamic State militants. (Photo by Stringer/Getty Images)