New rules have been handed down to women working in Ashgabat further restricting what they can wear, adding to a growing list ...

A summit of Caspian Sea leaders due to meet in March to discuss sharing the region's vast oil and gas resources has been postponed until April, Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov announced Monday.

The country’s then president, Saparmurat Niyazov, was reported to have been so upset at seeing some of the country’s biggest and more established stars miming on TV shows to their biggest hits ...

He became acting president after the death of President Saparmurat Niyazov in December 2006 and won the presidential election. In February 2012, he was re-elected to the post. In October 2011 ...