Turkmenistan president-for-life tries to play God By Juliette Terzieff , Chronicle Foreign Service July 11, 2004 In the country that Turkmenbashy built, "He" is everywhere.

Turkmenistan’s longtime leader has unveiled a giant gilded statue of a dog on a busy traffic circle in the capital Ashgabat. Depicted standing proudly on a plinth, the gold-coated canine is an ...

An ethno-cultural region made up of mainly ethnic Uzbeks straddles the border between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. It is known as Khorezm on the Uzbek side, and Dashoguz on the Turkmen side. A ...

Turkmenistan is known to have one of the most tightly controlled Internet environments in the world. But even in such an inhospitable atmosphere, there appears to be enough web energy to give life to ...

Turkmenistan is known as one of the most secretive and isolated countries in the world. Foreign presence in this country is limited to a few diplomats and branch executives of a couple of large energy ...

Turkmenistan’s authoritarian president has called for the end of one of the country’s most iconic sights – a flaming natural gas pit in the desert known as Gates of Hell.

The closest thing to hell on Earth lies in Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert. There, a fire pit known as the Darvaza Crater earned the name “Gates of Hell”—or “Door to Hell”—because it ...

Turkmenistan is one of the world's most secretive countries, and has a widely denounced human rights record. The country doesn't allow many people in, and its president is a fan of showing off ...