Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday met Serdar Berdimuhamedov, President of Turkmenistan, in Ashgabat. According to the PM Office, the prime minister congratulated the Turkmen president on the ...

Today, the Holiday of the Turkmen Alabay was widely marked in the country. Major festive events on the occasion of this significant holiday took place on the outdoor arena of the Ashgabat equestrian ...

(Berlin, June 3, 2025) – Turkish authorities should immediately release Umidajan Bekchanova, a Turkmen dissident currently held in a deportation center in Istanbul, Human Rights Watch said today. They ...

When it comes to controlling the flow of information in Turkmenistan, authorities don’t mess around. Those caught trying to evade government censorship measures to communicate with the outside world ...

TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan -- Austere control over the lives of citizens in Turkmenistan took another bizarre turn when officials in the ethnically diverse Balkan Province issued a ban on foreign ...

ARKADAG, Turkmenistan, June 29 (Reuters) - Turkmenistan opened a new, futuristic "smart" city on Thursday dedicated to its former president Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. The city is named Arkadag, or ...

The U.S. state of Montana may before too long see the arrival of soldiers from Turkmenistan eager for training. On September 25, Ashgabat welcomed the commander of the Montana National Guard, Major ...

The forthcoming political change will affect vast energy resources, especially natural gas, in Turkmenistan, one of the most isolated and impoverished countries in Eurasia. The ruling Democratic Party ...

Turkmen border guards were reportedly involved in a sustained exchange of fire with Taliban forces on January 3, the first known time the two have been in a shoot-out. The facts of the incident are ...

(Berlin) – The Turkish government should halt any plans to deport two detained Turkmen activists to Turkmenistan, where they will be at grave risk of arbitrary arrest and torture, Human Rights Watch ...

Over the last several months Turkmen diaspora communities in Turkey, Cyprus, and the United States have initiated a rare wave of demonstrations in response to Ashgatbat’s inadequate response to a raft ...

More than three years after Russia stopped buying gas from Turkmenistan, flows are resuming. In mid-April, Turkmengaz, the state natural gas company, announced that it was once again exporting gas to ...