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ANKARA, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- One Turkish soldier was killed and three others wounded after a rocket fired from the People's Protection Units (YPG) forces hit a Turkish tank in northern Syria, the state-run Anadolu news agency said Saturday.
It was the first fatality the Turkish army suffered in its recent military campaign inside Syria.
Meanwhile, Turkish warplanes hit and destroyed a YPG ammunition depot in Syria's Jarablus, military sources told CNN Turk.
The Turkish military, which has entered the Syrian town of Jarablus as part of the "Euphrates Shield" operation to help Syrian rebels sweep the Islamic State (IS) militants off the border, hit late on Thursday the Syrian Kurdish militants by artillery fires.
The YPG, a part of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance, has been a partner in the U.S.-led campaign against the IS in Syria.
Ankara has frequently voiced its concern over the YPG's activity along the Turkish border and has been rigid in its stance in not allowing the Democratic Union Party (PYD) militant group to found any kind of de facto Kurdish state in northern Syria.
The Turkish government claims the PYD and its military wing YPG enjoy close connections with the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), including militant and ammunition support through underground tunnels.
