Turkmenistan
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Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to the north, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest, and the Caspian Sea to the west
White Sheep Turkoman helmet (15th century)
City of Çärjew in Russian Turkestan, 1890
A Turkmen man of Central Asia in traditional clothes. Photo by Prokudin-Gorsky between 1905 and 1915.
Serdar Berdimuhamedov President
Serdar Berdimuhamedow
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Serdar Gurbangulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow is a Turkmen politician and businessman serving as the third and current president of Turkmenistan since 2022. Berdimuhamedow had previously served in several oth
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…2007 after winning a non-democratic election (who had been the minister of health, vice-president, and then acting president previously); and his son Serdar, who won a subsequent 2022 presidential election described by international observers as neither free nor fair, and now shares power with his father…
Berdimuhamedow in 2025
Serdar Berdimuhamedov paying a courtesy visit to the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Lassina Zerbo, 3 July 2018.
Berdimuhamedow (far right) at the 2021 Eurasian Intergovernmental Council meeting.
Berdimuhamedov at a reception at Buckingham Palace in London, 5 May 2023