Documentary Time: President for Life – Turkmenistan
Another country that seems very interesting to me is Turkmenistan. Here is another country with a huge cult of personality, and strangely enough, I do not hear as much about this one as with North Korea. I do know NKEconWatch went to Turkmenistan, and the pictures are very neat as well (Although I cannot find the pictures).
At this stage of the game, I am just starting to look into it, so I will not even begin to discuss what it is about yet. To start off, I did find this documentary on it, and I found it interesting as well. Granted, you cannot play it here as the author denied embedding.
Click on this image to see the video on YouTube
As time goes on, I should learn more about this country, and I just hope it is not as secretive and frustrating as North Korea is.
As usual, insights would be very good. Thank you in advance.
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Thanks for the link, this was very interesting. Koryo Tours has tours in Turkmenistan for those who are interested.
Heh, is Koryo the official axis of evil airline?
Niyazov died in 2006 and no son took over. But Berdimuhammedow(new leader)
resembles him so he got elected in 07.
Hey Jack. Happy new year.
Here are the Turkmenistan photos: http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2007/01/17/turkmenistan-2006-under-construction/
I went to Turkmenistan with Koryo Tours amd recommend it:
http://www.koryogroup.com/turkmenistan/tours.html
Turkmenistan was my first venture into Central Asia. Since then I have been to Iran and Tajikistan. Looking forward to Uzbekistan and kyrgyzstan soon.