The number of Kurdish refugees from northern Syria who have fled into Turkey to escape advancing Islamic State militants has reached 130,000.  The United Nations refugee agency says Turkey needs to care for these people.  Turkish forces for another day used tear gas on Kurdish protesters.

Kurdish leaders issued a call to arms for their kinsmen in Turkey to come south and get into the fight.  Hundreds of Kurdish youths are stuck at the border crossing at Mursitpinar, opposite of the Syrian Kurdish city of Kobani.  But they’re blocked from crossing by a line of Turkish border guards who’ve fired volleys of tear gas and clashed with the young men as they try to cross.

Even before the latest influx, Turkey was struggling to deal with the more than one million Kurdish and Syrian refugees who fled north to get away from the civil war.  Critics allege that Turkey did more than its share to create the chaos, allowing money and jihadis to flow over the border to bolster the rebels trying to oust President Bashar al-Assad.  It was not until Islamic State split from al Nusra Front and al Qaeda earlier this year that Ankara reportedly realized it made an awful mistake.