Kurd rebels kill 8 Turkey troops

The separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party claimed responsibility for an ambush yesterday in which Ankara said eight Turkish soldiers were killed.
Turkey's Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz said earlier that Kurdish rebels killed eight soldiers in an ambush in the southeast of the country.
"They (rebels) are testing our patience... We'll retaliate in kind," Yilmaz said, quoted by Turkish media.
The attack took place in the Cukurca region of Hakkari province, close to the border with Iraq, the minister said. The toll could rise as several other troops were seriously wounded.
On June 16, the PKK, blacklisted as a terrorist group by Turkey as well as the European Union and the United States, killed 13 soldiers in Diyarbakir, another southeastern province.
Turkey's conflict with the PKK has claimed more than 45,000 lives since it broke out in 1984.