Turkmenistan, A Country For Old Men February 21, 2017 15:12 CET ... for his books Blessed Be The Turkmen People and Five Epochs Of The Spirituality Of The Turkmen People. ...

Turkmenistan's rubberstamp parliament is about to lose its rubber stamp, again. In his inauguration address on February 17, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov said he would raise the status ...

A Turkmen court sentenced 18 men to up to 25 years in prison on February 8, 2017, in what appears to be a purge of people associated with Turkish schools believed to have been previously ...

Turkmenistan was likely emboldened to intensify its pressure on Gülen-linked people by the intense crackdown on the cleric’s followers that happened in Turkey following the attempted coup there in ...

The volume, entitled Upbringing, is based on the “wisdom of the ancient traditions of the Turkmen people who through the ages developed clear-cut norms of behaviour and socialisation”.

In fact, Niyazov banned young men from sporting facial hair: Under his leadership, Turkmenistan was the most pogonophobic Stan in the world. He didn’t really require excitable men, hirsute or ...

In Turkmenistan, men who have sex with men continue to be arrested and imprisoned on sodomy charges. ... Human Rights Watch defends the rights of people in close to 100 countries worldwide, ...

Men in white fur caps proudly ride horses across the steppe, rows of modern machinery glisten, ... Just over 6,000 people visited Turkmenistan in 2016, according to local media reports.

One of the most significant literary figures to the Turkmen people is the 18th century poet, Magtymguly Pyragy, famed for his poetic expressions on moral values, humanity, patriotism and love.

There are no reliable official figures on Uzbeks in Turkmenistan, but the percentage of ethnic Uzbeks among Turkmenistan’s population is probably a bit less than 10 percent. (It is about 15 ...