Officials in the authoritarian Central Asian country have told government employees that they will face dismissal if they use newspaper pages praising the president and his father as toilet paper or for wrapping bread in.

A conversation with Ambassador Matthew Klimow, the former top U.S. diplomat in Turkmenistan, takes a deeper look into a country often described as one of the most closed and repressive in the world. Klimow argues that there has been noticeable progress in Turkmenistan and that

State employees frequenting the loo for a “number two” in Turkmenistan have reportedly been warned off the popular practice of using government newspapers as “read and wipe” material. Given that the heavily censored newspapers of the Turkmen regime carry little that could actually be described as news,

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Embarrassed by the labor migration exodus to Turkey, and by the political activism of Turkmen abroad, authorities in Turkmenistan are now breaking up families in their apparent bid to ground citizens in their homeland.

Ambassador of Turkmenistan to Pakistan, Atadjan Movlamov said that Turkmenistan considered the 2025 as Year of Peace and Trust, and

This is a submission to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA), ahead of its review of the application for accreditation of the Office of the Ombudsperson of Turkmenistan (Ombudsperson) in the fall 2024.

Turkmenistan President Serdar Berdimuhamedov met with Husain Al-Musallam, the Director General of the Olympic Council of Asia and president of World

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Acting Minister of Energy and Water Abdul Latif Mansour has emphasized the continuation and expansion of cooperation between Afghanistan and Turkmenistan called for accelerating the start of practical work on Turkmenistan Afghanistan Pakistan (TAP) project, a statement said on Tuesday.

President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov has sent congratulations to Aleksandr Lukashenko on his victory in Belarus' presidential election, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader.

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, January 30. In 2024, the total electricity production at the state-owned power plant in the National Tourist Zone Avaza in Turkmenistan reached 1.291 billion kilowatt-hours, Trend reports. According to the official data, the planned target was exceeded by 2 percent. The plant's production rose by 14 percent.