(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 ...

As both Ankara and Ashgabat have cracked down, Turkmen migrants are increasingly looking to Uzbekistan, Belarus and Kazakhstan for economic opportunity. Here, a Turkmenistan Airlines Boeing 737 taxis ...

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, June 23. Turkmenistan to increase the scale of elevator production due to the growth of new houses being built, Trend reports.

Turkmenistan is also bottom of the Reporters Without Borders' press freedom index. But none of this appears to bother Oksana Shumilova, a 40-year-old who works for a construction company in the ...

Japan and Turkmenistan are implementing large-scale economic projects. 'At the moment, bilateral relations between Japan and Turkmenistan are rapidly expanding in such areas as the promotion of ...

Turkmenistan’s state power corporation Turkmenenergo and United Arab Emirates Masdar and are currently developing a 100 MW solar plant in Turkmenistan. The new project follows the recent launch ...

Turkmenistan talks a big game about diversifying export markets for its natural gas, but China will be the only major customer for the foreseeable future. The scale of the quasi-monopsonistic reality ...

In April 2022, people in Turkmenistan woke up to the news that our right to abortion care had been virtually erased, at the stroke of a pen. The government had made public a law restricting ...

The crater fire named "Gates of Hell" is seen near Darvaza, Turkmenistan, on July 11, 2020. The president of Turkmenistan is calling for an end to one of the country's most notable but infernal ...

Chef and author Gyulshat Esenova. (Constantine Fedorets) This article is more than 3 years old. Chef and author Gyulshat Esenova describes how the desert climate of her native Turkmenistan shaped ...

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 said ...

She was detained outside the Turkmen Consulate in Istanbul along with 80 other activists for violating coronavirus quarantine rules on July 19, 2020, as the group protested the Turkmen government ...