Turkey’s foreign minister has said that the West cannot expect it to lead a military ground operation against the Islamic State in Syria alone.
The US-led coalition have led a series of fresh air strikes on Islamic State (IS) positions surrounding the Kurdish city of Kobane.
Kurdish YPG fighters are making a last stand of defence against militants form the Islamic State, who have broken Kurdish defences and entered Kobane after a three week siege.
Turkey has tightened security and closed some border crossings with Syria after around 130,000 Kurdish refugees entered the country over the past 48 hours.
Militants from the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) have vowed to wipe the United States “off the map”, denying that the air strikes has affected its military power.