By Eurasianet A growing shortage of conscripts is threatening to disrupt the Turkmen government’s efforts to modernise the country’s armed forces. RFE/RL reports that Turkmen officials are considering ...

President of Turkmenistan, Serdar Berdimuhamedov, presided over a meeting of the State Security Council to review the ...

TASS/. The defense ministers of Russia and Turkmenistan, Sergey Shoigu and Yaylym Berdiev, have established promising areas of bilateral cooperation in the military sphere and coordinated concrete ...

MOSCOW, June 19. /TASS/. Turkmenistan’s President Gurbankuly Berdimuhamedow informed Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Friday that he would be unable to visit Moscow for the ...

The ambassador highlighted Turkmenistan's long-standing policy of peaceful neutrality, which is built on principles of noninterference in the internal affairs of other states, abstaining from military ...

In its most recent country report on Turkmenistan, watchdog group Freedom House noted that “physical abuse and hazing in the military have reportedly led to several deaths among conscripts in recent ...