Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan, formerly known as the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic is a country in Central Asia. It has borders with Afghanistan, Iran (Persia), Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and has a coastline on the Caspian Sea.

External links

• The Turkmenistan Project - weekly news and analysis in English and Russian
• Freedom House annual report on freedom - Freedom House report on Turkmenistan from 2004
• Amnesty Interntional annual report - Amnesty International report on Turkmenistan from 2004
• Cracks in the Marble: Turkmenistan's Failing Dictatorship, International Crisis Group Report from 2003 - free registration required for access to whole report
• Niyazov's Turkmenistan: a sultanistic regime?- Defining regime in Turkmenistan as sultanistic regime, pdf file
• Photo Gallery from Turkmenistan (In German)
• Travel report from Turkmenistan
• CIA Factbook