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Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov Türkmenbaşy (Russian: Сапармурат Атаевич Ниязов; Turkmen: Saparmyrat Ataýewiç Nyýazow; [a] 19 February 1940 – 21 December 2006), was a Turkmen politician who led Turkmenistan from 1985 until his death in 2006.
Unitary presidential republic under a totalitarian hereditary dictatorship [8] [9] ... Turkmenistan [a] is a landlocked country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan ...
The politics of Turkmenistan nominally takes place in the framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of Turkmenistan is nominally both head of state and head of government. However, as of 21 January 2023 a "national leader" was appointed who chairs an independent People's Council ( viz. ) with authority to amend the ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 February 2025. Turkmen politician (born 1957) In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mälikgulyýewiç and the family name is Berdimuhamedow. His Excellency Arkadag National Leader of the Turkmen People Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow Berdimuhamedow in 2017 Chairman of ...
Turkmenistan became independent on October 27, 1991, amidst the dissolution of the Soviet Union (commemorated annually). The former head of Turkmenistan's Communist Party at the time of independence, Saparmurat Niyazov, was elected president of the newly independent nation in an uncontested election. At the 25th Congress of the Communist Party ...
No prior elections in Turkmenistan have been free and fair and the 2022 elections took place in an authoritarian context. [5] [6] [7] The country has been described as a totalitarian dictatorship under the rule of Saparmurat Niyazov and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. [8]
Turkmenistan elects on national level a head of state — the president — and a legislature.The elections in Turkmenistan since its split from the Soviet Union have been widely criticized for being neither free nor fair and attempting to give an appearance of legitimacy to what is in reality a dictatorship. [1]
Turkmenistan elects on the national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. Elections in Turkmenistan have been widely criticised for being completely fraudulent and attempting to give an appearance of legitimacy to what is in reality a dictatorship.