Erdogan hailed the Turkish military's operation on Sunday during a political rally in the northwestern province of Bursa, saying that "YPG is on the run."
He also said that this operation will be completed "in a very short time" without giving a precise time limit.
The operation is Turkey's second major incursion into Syria during the seven-year civil war after the Euphrates Shield Operation between August 2016 and March 2017 in an area to the east of Afrin against both the YPG and Islamic State (IS) fighters.
The army said IS, widely defeated in Syria and Iraq, was also being targeted in this operation.
Erdogan had repeatedly vowed that Turkey would root out the "nests of terror" of the YPG in Syria.
Afrin is an enclave under YPG control, cut off from the longer strip of northern Syria that the group controls to the east extending to the Iraqi border. Turkey wants the YPG to retreat from the east of the Euphrates River, so as "not to pose a security threat."
Yildirim said that the Turkish forces aimed to create a 30-km-deep security zone inside Syria and that the Turkish army has so far suffered no casualties.
Meanwhile, six rockets fired by the YPG hit the border towns of Kilis and Reyhanli on Sunday, killing one Syrian immigrant and injuring some 30 people, according to local officials.
Turkey also launched a diplomatic campaign in Ankara to explain the reasons of the operation to major powers, a Turkish source told Xinhua.
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