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Famous travel website Conde Nast Traveler followed the Guardian’s footsteps and invited readers to visit Greece despite the crisis in an article titled “Why we’re still travelling to Greece this summer.” Journalist Mark Ellwood noted that the country is in dire need of tourism and urged travelers not to cancel trips.

A few investors are racing to establish funds for Iran following last week's nuclear deal with world powers, and many others are tapping into multinationals already present in the $400 billion economy.

The agreement has made some seek a foothold in Tehran's $100 billion stock market even before sanctions are lifted, although others are taking a more cautious approach.

The honorary consul general at Thailand's diplomatic mission in Istanbul has expressed "no hard feelings" over a recent attack following reports that the Southeast Asian country had deported 109 Uighurs to China.

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Beijing effectively bans Uighurs and Tibetans from obtaining passports, Human Rights Watch said on July 13, amid a surge in Chinese tourists travelling abroad.

Some of the Uighurs deported to China last week from Thailand had planned to go to Syria and Iraq to carry out jihad, state television said, showing pictures of them being bundled out of an aircraft with black hoods over their heads. 

Uighurs from China's Xinjiang are being given Turkish identity papers in Southeast Asia by Turkish diplomats and then taken to Turkey where some are sold to fight for groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as "cannon fodder," a senior Chinese official said. 

Many news reports on China?s alleged restrictions on Muslim Uighurs during the holy month of Ramadan do not reflect reality, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said, amid anti-Chinese demonstrations by Turkish nationalists over the treatment of the Turkic-speaking, largely Muslim minority in China?s Xinjiang region.
 

Thailand on Friday closed its embassy and consulate in Turkey after a protest against its deportation of Uighur Muslims to China, as the US warned the minority could face "harsh treatment" on their return.

A pro-Uighur group outside the Thai Embassy in Ankara has attempted to lynch an Asian tourist, assuming that the woman is Chinese. 

One day after a group of protestors vandalized the Thai Consulate in Istanbul over the repatriation of 200 Uighurs from Thailand to China, another group staged a demonstration in front of the Thai Embassy in Turkey's capital Ankara on July 9. 

Turkey has condemned Thailand for forcibly returning to China nearly 100 Uighur migrants who were sheltering in Thailand after escaping alleged Chinese oppression in Xinjiang in the wake of a violent attack against Bangkok's consulate in Istanbul over the deportations.