The return of the Taliban in Kabul looked fatal for the fortunes of Turkmenistan’s dream to build a trans-Afghan natural gas pipeline. With an internationally proscribed militant group in charge of ...

In March 2023, Yilmaz Ozkan saw his wife, Maysa, off at the airport in Istanbul as she made a trip to her homeland, Turkmenistan, to renew her international passport. But Maysa has not been able to ...

Turkmenistan bristles at suggestions that it has become an oppressive place for women to live. It was this topic that Deputy Foreign Minister Vepa Khadzhiyev chose to address at a press briefing last ...

TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan – Some two dozen Turkmen students returning home from abroad were taken directly from the airport into the military, their parents claim, as authoritarian Turkmenistan ...