The Turkish army was on Tuesday engaged in intense clashes with Kurdish militia inside Syria as the US voiced alarm Ankara's operation could endanger attempts to bring peace to the conflict-torn country.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed at the funeral of the first Turkish soldier to be killed in the cross-border campaign that Ankara would emerge victorious from the campaign.
Turkey on Saturday launched operation ""Olive Branch"" aimed at rooting out the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia Jose Abreu Jersey , which Ankara sees as a terror group, from its Afrin enclave in northern Syria.
The campaign has caused ripples of concern among Turkey's NATO allies, especially the US which is still working closely with the YPG to defeat Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria and fears the offensive will be a distraction.
In his strongest comments yet on the offensive, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis called for Turkey to show ""restraint.""
He warned the offensive ""disrupts what was a relatively stable area in Syria and distracts from the international effort to defeat"" IS Joe Crede Jersey , on a visit to Indonesia.
Turkish artillery on Tuesday pounded targets of the YPG inside Syria, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. Meanwhile, Turkish drones were also carrying out attacks, state television said.