ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) – Turkmenistan’s president said Saturday his government will begin installing gas meters in households, ending the unlimited supply of free gas to citizens in the ...

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 ...

Turkmenistan has increased its control over the lives of its people after the recent unrest in Kazakhstan, deploying police in residential areas and randomly checking people’s phones. An unannounced ...

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 ...

There are more than 3.5 million registered voters in Turkmenistan. Or so, at least, election officials said last week. This is no small matter since mystery persists over just how many people live in ...

National Leader of the Turkmen People, Chairman of the Halk Maslakhaty of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has sent a congratulatory letter to President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

ASHGABAT -- Turkmen students set to study abroad are being barred from leaving the country at Ashgabat International Airport, parents and eyewitnesses say. It’s not clear how many students have been ...

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 ...

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 ...