Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday announced that his country's armed forces had taken control of more than 300 sq.km of Syrian territory inside the Kurdish-controlled enclave of Afrin, located in northwestern Syria. Speaking at a public rally, Erdogan touted the progress being made in Turkey's military incursion into Afrin, dubbed ‘Operation Olive Branch', the stated aim of which was to create a 30-km-deep buffer zone inside Syria and expel the United States-supported Kurdish YPG militias that hold the enclave, EFE news agency said.