Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan president hints at reforms as Putin, Erdogan and others visit

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian attend a meeting in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan December 12, 2025. Sputnik/Kristina Kormilitsyna/Pool via REUTERS

Trump meets Central Asian leaders to boost critical mineral ties

US President Donald Trump (middle) met with leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Trump to host Central Asian presidents as US seeks to counter China, Russia influence

US President Donald Trump speaks as he meets with the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 22, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Rubio plans to visit five Central Asian states in 2026

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a reception with Central Asian states' foreign ministers at the State Department in Washington, on Nov 5.

Iraq fails to win US approval to import Turkmen gas via Iran

People walk along an old street as a tangled web of electrical wires from a generator supplying homes with electricity hangs above buildings, in Baghdad, Iraq, September 10, 2025. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

'Raped, jailed, tortured, left to die': The hell of being gay in Turkmenistan

(FILES) The main flag of Turkmenistan sits in front of the State museum of the State cultural centre of Turkmenistan in the capital of Ashgabat on June 28, 2023. Three men who escaped one of the world's most secretive and repressive states have told AFP how they were tortured, beaten and subject to punishment rapes in penal colonies and psychiatric hospitals in Turkmenistan for the "crime" of being gay. When the oil- and gas-rich Central Asian republic makes the headlines, it is usually for the eccentricities of its "National Leader" and "Hero Protector" Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. But behind the monumental statues and the marble city of Arkadag built in Berdymukhamedov's honour, opponents and minorities are mercilessly persecuted, say Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, none more so than LGBT+ people. (Photo by Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP)

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