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 ...

Amid the collapse of Turkmenistan's health-care system, the health of the country's mercurial president, Saparmurat Niyazov, has become the subject of conjecture. An opposition-run website recently ...

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 ...

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, ...

By Bruce Pannier The history of the Central Asian states since independence dawned in 1991 centres around the leaders of the ...

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 ...

Turkmen leader Saparmurat Niyazov's death opens a new era for Turkmenistan and, quite possibly, stands to shake up the political order throughout the Caspian Basin. Niyazov's funeral, scheduled for ...

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has scrapped a state award named after the mother of the late president in the latest reform to his predecessor's bizarre rule, Neutral Turkmenistan ...

Turkmenistan is officially a nation of orphans. Government officials announced Thursday morning that President-For-Life Saparmurat Niyazov, self-proclaimed “Turkmenbashi” — the Father of all the ...

ASHGABAT (Reuters) - Turkmenistan's leader Saparmurat Niyazov, who died on Thursday, was absolute ruler of his Central Asian desert state for more than 20 years, enjoying a unique personality cult.

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Croatia to halt extradition proceedings to Turkmenistan and immediately release a detained member of a Russian music band known for its ...

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 ...