(4 Oct 2014) Riot police fired tear gas at a crowd of Kurdish and Turkish activists on Saturday, after they tried to cross the border into Syria.
On the Syrian side of the border, intense fighting has continued on the outskirts of the town of Kobani.
Islamic State group fighters are trying to capture the town to open up more territory between their positions in Aleppo and their stronghold of Raqqa to the east.
Kobani and its surrounding areas have been under attack since mid-September, with militants capturing dozens of nearby Kurdish villages.
The assault, which has forced some 160,000 Syrians to flee, has left Kurdish militiamen called the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPK, scrambling to repel the militants' advance into the outskirts of the town, also known as Ayn Arab.
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