World Cult of Turkmen ‘Father’ fades into history, 10 years on. By. AFP. Published. December 22, 2016 - ...

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Meet the new statue, same as the old statue. It's been a tastelessly iconic symbol of Turkmenistan since it appeared in 1998: a 12-meter-tall, ... Ashgabat, dominating the skyline.

The new Ashgabat is all about grand buildings, wide avenues, parks, and gardens, which appear eerily devoid of human presence. The city is divided into two contrasting realms – the old town, a ...

Ashgabat — "We know about Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. But we can't access them -- everything here is blocked," said Byashim Ishanguliyev, a fruit seller in the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat.

Turkey's Polimeks Construction submitted a bid in a tender to construct a new airport in the Turkmen capital of Ashghabat, a project worth an estimated 1 billion euros, said the chief of a Turkmen ...

The watch face shows Saparmurat Niyazov, who as ruler of isolated Turkmenistan from before the end of the USSR to his death in 2006 created one of the world's most flamboyant personality cults. "I ...