The militants were killed around Jarablus, a Syrian town on the border with Turkey, the military said.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that his nation would continue its "operations against terrorist organisations" and repeated his pledge that he would approve reinstituting the death penalty if parliament backed it.
The Turkish army said it was taking all the measures it could to avoid any civilian deaths in Syria.
At the same time, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said at least 35 civilians were killed south of Jarablus during fighting between Turkish-backed forces and rival Kurdish-aligned Syrian militias.
It said 20 people died in strikes on Jeb el-Kussa, and another 15 were killed in a separate bombardment near al-Amarneh.
Four local fighters were also killed, the UK-based Observatory reported.
The militias have said there are no Kurdish forces in the area.
Footage filmed by a Sky News cameraman in Jarablus shows Turkish-backed Syrian rebels firing on Kurdish positions, as well as Turkish tanks positioned inside Syria.
Turkish special forces, tanks and warplanes crossed the border into Syria last week to join Syrian rebels as part of a drive to remove Islamic State militants from Jarablus.
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