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"Exiled To Nowhere: Burma's Rohingya," a photography exhibition by acclaimed U.S. documentary photographer Greg Constantine, will open at Galata Foto?rafhanesi in Istanbul on July 4.  

The exhibition will highlight the persecution and human rights violations against the stateless Rohingya community in Burma.

Russia on July 2 criticised proposed changes to Ukraine's constitution, saying Kiev authorities "absolutely" ignored the demands put forward by Moscow-aligned separatists.

Russia said on July 2 a new U.S. military strategy was confrontational and would not help improve relations with Moscow, strained by the crisis in Ukraine.

The strategy, released by the Pentagon on July 1, said  Russia had repeatedly demonstrated it does not respect the sovereignty of its neighbours and that it was willing to use force to achieve its goals. 

NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was due in Romania on Thursday on his first official visit, to discuss consolidation of the Alliance's capacities on its eastern flank and open a NATO Force Integration Unit, NFIU.

Stoltenberg was due to meet President Klaus Iohannis, acting Prime Minister Gabriel Oprea and the Foreign and Defence ministers.

A Turkish man extradited from Iraq in a U.S. military contract bribery case has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.

Metin At?lan also was fined $1 million and given five years' probation.

WikiLeaks published a list of German phone numbers July 1 that it claimed showed the U.S. National Security Agency eavesdropped on senior German officials beyond Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Bulgaria's Ambassador to the US Elena Poptodorova has said her mail address has been "hacked" as part of a scam.

All her contacts have received messages wherein she asks for USD 2850, claiming to have been "mugged at gunpoint" in the Philippines.

Poptodorova, however, is in Washington DC and completely safe, as her Thursday interview with NOVA TV shows.

A 3,000-metre (9,800-foot) airstrip Beijing is building on a reef in disputed waters in the South China Sea, where tensions are mounting with its neighbours, is "nearly complete", a US think-tank said.
 

Retired US admiral James Stavridis, who once commanded the US European Supreme Allied Forces, paints a very gloomy picture of the implications of a possible Grexit, writing in an article published in the Foreign Policy magazine.

Stavridis warns of grave geo-strategic dangers if Greece leaves the euro area.

On June 20, 2014, Ziya Boyac?giller passed away. I wanted to write about him, as he was not just an entrepreneur but a role model to many people. I believe that we Turkish people tend not to take time to remember those who contributed to our society in a positive manner.