A soldier was killed when Kurdish fighters fired on tanks. Kurdish media say three tanks were destroyed.
Turkish armour crossed the border earlier this week in an operation aimed at so-called Islamic State but also at Kurdish forces in the area.
Elsewhere in Syria activists say at least 15 people were killed in a barrel bomb attack in Aleppo.
Saturday saw clashes between Turkish tanks and Kurdish forces near Jarablus, a border town Turkey helped Syrian rebels recapture from IS on Wednesday.
Turkish planes bombarded positions south of the town, in what one group allied with Kurdish rebels called a "dangerous escalation".
Three other soldiers were wounded in the clash with Kurdish fighters.
Turkey has vowed to continue the campaign until there is no longer a "terror" threat from its neighbour, likely to refer both to IS and to the Kurds.
Turkish armour crossed the border earlier this week in an operation aimed at so-called Islamic State but also at Kurdish forces in the area.
Elsewhere in Syria activists say at least 15 people were killed in a barrel bomb attack in Aleppo.
Saturday saw clashes between Turkish tanks and Kurdish forces near Jarablus, a border town Turkey helped Syrian rebels recapture from IS on Wednesday.
Turkish planes bombarded positions south of the town, in what one group allied with Kurdish rebels called a "dangerous escalation".
Three other soldiers were wounded in the clash with Kurdish fighters.
Turkey has vowed to continue the campaign until there is no longer a "terror" threat from its neighbour, likely to refer both to IS and to the Kurds.
It fears Kurdish fighters gaining an unbroken strip of territory along its border, which would be a huge boost to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a banned Kurdish rebel group fighting for autonomy in Turkey.
The Turkish move further complicates the already protracted Syrian civil war. Both Turkey and Kurdish rebels are US allies.
In another development, a police checkpoint near the airport at Turkey's south-eastern city of Diyarbakir came under rocket fire on Saturday evening. No casualties or disruption to flights were reported.
SOURCE:WORLD NEWS
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