Akshat Mehrish The dissolution of the Soviet Union left Turkmenistan in footballing wilderness. The post-Soviet states unequally shared all football-related resources between them once the ...

Sailors parade in Ashgabat (government handout) Despite all the action at the moment being on Turkmenistan’s eastern border, in Afghanistan, the president ventured last week to the west, to open a new ...

In 2014, armed militants crossed into Turkmenistan and killed three border guards in one incident and three Turkmen soldiers during another incursion. Turkmenistan's untested military has so far not ...

(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 ...