The late Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov (who liked to be known as Turkmenbashi, or "Leader of the Turkmen") is remembered for an authoritarian style and eccentric personality cult embodied by ...

Niyazov oversaw some grandiose projects, like the building of the country's biggest mosque in Kipchak (file) (ITAR-TASS) November 19, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Nearly a year after the death of Turkmen ...

I'm sure Turkmenistan's President-For-Life Saparmurat "Turkmenbashi" Niyazov didn't find out immediately I'd put him on notice last month. Afterall, I'm sure the news travels kind of slow in the ...

This essay is part of a series by American diplomats sharing their impressions of the dramatic early years of Central Asia's independence from the Soviet Union. These memoirs were written at the ...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The sudden death of Turkmenistan's autocratic president, Saparmurad Niyazov, without any clear succession plan leaves the resource-rich former Soviet republic looking ...

Ever since Turkmenistan’s eccentric despot Saparmurat “Turkmenbashi” Niyazov died in late 2006, his eccentric, despotic successor has been busy refocusing Niyazov’s pagan-like personality cult on ...

Turkmenistan is officially a nation of orphans. Government officials announced Thursday morning that President-For-Life Saparmurat Niyazov, self-proclaimed “Turkmenbashi” — the Father of all the ...