Turkmenistan is likewise called Turkmenia, a landlocked nation in Central Asia, surrounded by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, eastern as well as northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. Ashgabat is the resources and largest city of the country.

The population of the nation is about 6 million, the most affordable of the Main Eastern republics. Turkmenistan is just one of the most sparsely booming countries in Asia. Citizens of Turkmenistan are referred to as Turkmenistanis (where citizenship as well as not ethnic culture is stressed), Turkmenians or Turkmens.

The location currently known as Turkmenistan has long acted as a road for numerous other countries as well as cultures. Merv is just one of the earliest oasis-cities in Central Asia as well as was once the most significant city in the world. In medieval times, Merv was likewise one of the excellent cities of the Islamic globe as well as an important quit on the Silk Road.

Annexed by the Russian Empire in 1881, Turkmenistan later figured plainly in the anti-Bolshevik activity in Central Asia. In 1925, Turkmenistan became a basic republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (Turkmen SSR); it came to be independent after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Turkmenistan possesses the world’s fifth largest books of natural gas. The majority of the nation is covered by the Karakum or Black Sand Desert. From 1993 to 2017, residents received government-provided power, water and gas free of charge.

Turkmenistan is currently an observer state in the Organisation of Turkic States, the Türksoy neighborhood as well as a member of the United Nations.

The country is commonly slammed for its inadequate human rights. Remarkable problems were its therapy of minorities, press liberties, and religious flexibilities. After its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the sovereign state of Turkmenistan has actually been ruled by three repressive totalitarian regimes. It was ruled by President permanently Saparmurat Niyazov (likewise called Türkmenbaşy or “Head of the Turkmens”) till his death in 2006.

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow ended up being head of state in 2007 after winning a non-democratic election (he had actually been vice-president and after that acting president previously), and ruled the country until he stepped down in 2022 in favour of his kid Serdar, that proceeded to win the presidential political election the very same year – an election which has actually been explained by a number of worldwide viewers as neither complimentary nor fair. Using the execution was put on hold in January 1999 prior to being formally abolished in the 2008 constitution.