RFE/RL's Turkmen Service is the only international Turkmen-language media reporting independently on political, economic, cultural, and security issues from inside one of the the world’s most reclusive countries.
The Turkmen government has issued restrictive new lists of which international universities it will recognize diplomas from and which degrees it will accept. It’s yet another blow to the country's students seeking to study abroad.
The streets of Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, were flooded after severe rains that began on April 13. Weeks of heavy downpours have taken a toll on the region, causing deaths and extensive damage from flooding in Iran and Afghanistan.
For women in Turkmenistan, a state news agency's joke about women drivers is no laughing matter.
A woman has given RFE/RL a mobile phone video she filmed as she chased traffic police in Turkmenistan's capital, Ashgabat, after her driving license was seized because, she says, of her gender. The country's president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, is thought to disapprove of women drivers.
Schoolchildren in Ashgabat were ordered to clean the city’s major roads ahead of the Turkmen president’s weekend trip to the suburbs.
A German company that produces electronic-surveillance tools has sold equipment to Turkmenistan's Communications Ministry, according to sources, raising fears that the authoritarian Central Asian state is deploying the technology to suppress dissent.
Turkmen authorities have launched a campaign to register army reservists -- nearly all men under 50 -- amid concerns about militants in neighboring Afghanistan, according to a Defense Ministry source and accounts by citizens.
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has pardoned 796 prisoners to mark the International Day of Neutrality marked on December 12, state media report.
When Afghans vote for a new parliament on October 20, they will have an unprecedented number of women on the ballot. The road to politics in this conservative country has been bumpy but some sense a change.
A 70-year-old man has offered to pay to marry a 16-year-old ethnic Turkmen girl in Afghanistan. The girl's mother says they are desperate and need the cash.
Turkmen state TV hails him as the "Great Patron" who can sing, ride, and drive like a champ. Now it says that President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has redesigned and rebuilt "from scratch" a rally car.
RFE/RL Turkmen Service correspondent Soltan Achilova says she was accosted by two men over the weekend and punched in the chest, the latest in a long string of attacks on the 69-year-old journalist.
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has pardoned 611 inmates on the occasion of a religious holiday, according to state media reports.
Turkmen students abroad are going hungry and getting tossed from their homes and universities as their banks in Turkmenistan withhold cash.
Turkmen journalist and RFE/RL contributor Saparmamed Nepeskuliev has been released after serving a three-year prison term on drug charges that human rights groups and a UN panel denounced as politically motivated.
RFE/RL correspondent Soltan Achilova was forcibly detained and threatened by security forces in Turkmenistan.
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is visiting Tashkent, part of a surge in diplomatic activity in Central Asia since the death of longtime Uzbek leader Islam Karimov in 2016.
Officials in one of Central Asia's most authoritarian states are preventing Turkmen nationals from leaving for greener economic pastures.
Bikinis, short pants, and other swimsuits are the latest items to run afoul of the Turkmen government's rules for what is appropriate for its people.
Turkmenistan's authoritarian president has appointed his son to a senior post in the Central Asian state's Foreign Ministry, a move that comes amid what political analysts say are signs he is being groomed as a presidential successor.
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