Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov once ran a dental clinic. Today he is teaching his country's ...

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) Turkmenistan has made a song performed by its authoritarian president the anthem of an international sports competition. President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov performed the ...

A choir of 4,166 people in isolated ex-Soviet Turkmenistan has broken a world record by singing a hymn penned by the nation's strongman president, in the latest choreographed show of support. The ...

For those who tend the flock, we salute you -- and your mother. Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov's growing personality cult has taken a generational leap with the recent release of a ...

TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan -- Austere control over the lives of citizens in Turkmenistan took another bizarre turn when officials in the ethnically diverse Balkan Province issued a ban on foreign ...