YAYLADAGI, Turkey (AFP) - About 1,300 more Syrians fearing bloodshed in their country have crossed into Turkey, officials and reports said Thursday, as the authorities braced to provide shelter for even more. The arrivals have sharply increased since Tuesday, with most refugees fleeing the flashpoint town of Jisr al-Shughur, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the Turkish border, where tensions have flared amid Damascus' accusations that protesters killed 120 policemen. Pouring in through barbed wire or unguarded stretches of the border in the Mediterranean province of Hatay, the refugees included several dozen people who were hospitalised for treatment of injuries reportedly sustained in security crackdowns. A Turkish government official told AFP that about 1,000 more people crossed the border late Wednesday and early Thursday. Later in the day, another 300 people arrived, bringing to nearly 1,900 the population of a refugee camp set up near the frontier in late April, Anatolia news agency reported. The figure was expected to rise further following Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's assurances Wednesday that Turkey would keep its door open to Syrians fleeing repression. "It's not possible for us to shut our doors at a time when deadly violence is on the rise (in Syria) and our brothers there are looking for shelter," Erdogan said in further remarks Thursday, according to Anatolia. Measures have been put in place in two other provinces neighbouring Syria -- Mardin and Gaziantep -- to meet a possible refugee wave, he said. "Syria is worrying us... I hope we will overcome this process quickly," he added. Erdogan has piled pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a personal friend, to initiate reform but stopped short of calling for his departure. In Yayladagi, a town near the border, the Turkish Red Crescent has already set up a tent city after the first Syrians arrived in late April. Erected in a compound with a yard of six hectares (15 acres) -- the site of a disused tobacco plant -- the camp initially had 100 tents, but the Red Crescent has said it is prepared to add another 900, mentioning also a stock of 8,500 blankets and cooking equipment for 10,000 people. The agency is planning to set up a second camp at a yet undetermined location, Anatolia said. Preparations for a refugee wave have been under way for several weeks, with Ankara determined to avoid the drama of 1991, when 500,000 Iraqi Kurds fleeing a major offensive by Saddam Hussein's forces poured into Turkey.