TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan -- At the start of this week, hundreds of mostly women protesters faced off with the mayor of Turkmenbashi in what appeared to be the largest rally to date over the ...

Turkmenistan’s rubber-stamp parliament has declared 2022 the Era of the People with Arkadag (Protector) -- that is, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov -- in the latest sign of the authoritarian’s ...

DASHOGUZ, Turkmenistan, December 7 (UNHCR) - As soon as she was handed her citizenship papers, Guljahan Egenova began thinking excitedly about the whole new future ahead of her. "I am proud," said the ...

For four years now, the forty-year-old Serdar Berdymukhamedov has held the office of president in Ashgabat, but his father, Gurbanguly, continues to present himself at every opportunity – both at home ...

The importance of cinema in understanding a nation’s culture and identity cannot be overstated. This is particularly true for countries like Turkmenistan, which is notorious for being one of the most ...

The regime in Turkmenistan is not interested in improving its human rights record. It is, however, prepared to engage in the choreography required to convince foreign partners that it is committed to ...

This submission has been prepared for the forth cycle review of Turkmenistan in the framework of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by Human Rights Watch (HRW). This submission highlights HRW’s key ...

Turkmenistan is going full throttle in its efforts to return momentum to the trans-Afghan TAPI natural gas pipeline project. Ten days before that, Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi flew ...

In the eye of the beholder. Turkmenistan’s authoritarian president, Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov. Photo CC-by-2.0: Thierry Ehrmann / Flickr. Some rights reserved. This ...