Turkey on Tuesday said there was no problem for Iraqi Kurdish fighters to cross its territory into Syria and the peshmerga could now make the much-awaited move at "any moment".

Turkey on Tuesday said there was no problem for Iraqi Kurdish fighters to cross its territory into Syria and the peshmerga could now make the much-awaited move at "any moment".

"There is now no political problem. There is no problem in the way of them crossing. They can cross at any moment," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying by the official Anatolia news agency.

His comments came amid reports that the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters would later Tuesday move into Syria, via Turkey, to reinforce Kurdish fighters battling jihadists for the Syrian town of Kobani.

There had been speculation this week their deployment was being held up by a dispute between Turkey and the Syrian Kurdish fighters on the ground about the reinforcement.