Officials in western Turkmenistan have ordered locals to play ex-President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov's songs at their wedding receptions and to banish foreign music from the playlists.

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan – Turkmenistan has made a song performed by its authoritarian president the anthem of an international sports competition. President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov performed ...

In early February, multiple sources in Turkmenistan’s western Balkan province shared that the authorities are pressuring residents to play former president Gurbanguly Berdimukhamedov’s songs at ...

For a growing number of Turkmen youth, rap music has become a way to express their daily struggles and inspire political change in one of the world's most oppressive countries.

Turkmenistan is currently in the grips of the worst economic crisis in its 25-year history, according to Radio Free Europe, largely due to its economy's dependency on its main export—gas.

A choir of 4,166 people in isolated ex-Soviet Turkmenistan has broken a world record by singing a hymn penned by the nation's strongman president, in the latest choreographed show of support. The ...

He has outlawed opera and ballet and railed against long hair and gold teeth, but now Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov is determined to wipe out another perceived scourge: lip synching.

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) - Turkmenistan has made a song performed by its authoritarian president the anthem of an international sports competition. President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov ...

A choir of 4,166 people in isolated ex-Soviet Turkmenistan has broken a world record by singing a hymn penned by the nation's strongman president, in the latest choreographed show of support. The ...