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 presidents of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan say they have agreed on closer cooperation between their countries on energy and transportation projects that could also involve Afghanistan, Pakistan, and countries in the South Caucasus.
Turkmen journalist and RFE/RL contributor Khudayberdy Allashov and his mother, Kurbantach Arazmedova, have been released from custody after spending 2 1/2 months in detention.
Polls have closed in Turkmenistan, where the authoritarian president of the hermetic, gas-rich country was expected to extend his rule for seven more years.
The former deputy chief of Turkmenistan’s Committee for National Security (KNB), Tirkish Tyrmyev, has reportedly died in custody at the age of 66.
Prominent dissident Turkmen poet Shirali Nurmuradov has died in Sweden at the age of 71.
Residents of the eastern Turkmenistan city of Turkmenabat say local police have been enforcing an 11 p.m. curfew for the past several days without giving any explanation.
Turkmenistan’s state media say President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has pardoned 612 prisoners, including 26 foreign citizens, ahead of festivities marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
Turkmen state media are reporting that a "public discussion" over constitutional amendments to extend the president's term and drop the age limit for candidates has been launched.
Japan and Turkmenistan have signed business deals worth more than $18 billion.
The recent offensive launched by forces of Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum has chased several dozen Taliban militants to an island in the Amu-Darya, the river that divides Afghanistan and Turkmenistan.
The mother of a detained RFE/RL correspondent in Turkmenistan says she has not been able to see her son since his arrest in July.
Turkmenistan is marking the 58th birthday of President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov with celebrations around the country.
Afghan authorities say security forces and Taliban insurgents engaged in heavy fighting around the city of Kunduz on April 27 amid a major militant offensive in the northern province.
Residents of an ethnic Turkmen village in northwestern Afghanistan are urging authorities to investigate a deadly shooting by police.
A local leader in an ethnic Turkmen village near Afghanistan's border with Turkmenistan says police killed at least four people and wounded at least seven others while dispersing a protest.
A group of ethnic Turkmen in Afghanistan have threatened to begin a hunger strike if armed forces from Turkmenistan continue to take land that the villagers claim as theirs.
Local residents in Turkmenistan's southeastern city of Mary have been rushing to foreign exchange offices to buy U.S. dollars amid rumors about plans for a further devaluation of the national currency, the manat.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was in Turkmenistan on January 22 for the second day of a two-day official visit.
Villagers in Afghanistan's northern Jowzjan Province claim Turkmenistan is stealing their agricultural land and are threatening to attack Turkmen border guards
Dozens of residents of Turkmenistan's capital, Ashgabat, took part in a rare street protest on November 29 -- blocking construction cranes from removing air conditioners from the windows of their apartments.
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