Last week Turkmenistan buried its brutal dictator, Saparmurad Niyazov. His ruthless reign spanned two decades, during which time his policies became increasingly irrational and unpredictable. The long ...

Saparmurat Niyazov, the “President for Life” of Turkmenistan who died yesterday aged 66, led his country from 1985, when it was still a Soviet republic. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, ...

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) – President Niyazov, Turkmenistan’s eccentric and iron-fisted leader who created a lavish cult of personality during two decades of rule over his isolated nation, died ...

ASHGABAT (Reuters) - Turkmenistan mourned its dead leader Saparmurat Niyazov on Friday but political uncertainty and intrigue gripped the Central Asian country as it prepared to bury the man who had ...

The post-Soviet government of the Republic of Turkmenistan retains many of the characteristics and the personnel of the communist regime of Soviet Turkmenistan. The government has received substantial ...

Former Turkmen President, People's Council (Khalk Maslahaty) Chairman Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov smiles during his meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Ashgabat, on Friday, Jan. 20 ...

He was, by his own decree, the "Father Of All Turkmen," and his death Thursday leaves an energy-rich, strategically situated swath of Central Asia without an heir apparent - and potentially at the ...

Niyazov effectively became Turkmenistan's permanent ruler in 1999, after parliament removed all term limits. But an August 2002 gathering of the country's People's Council n a hand-picked assembly of ...