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Meet Turkmenbashi

His Excellency Saparmurat Niyazov Turkmenbashi, president of Turkmenistan is one of the most controlling dictators in the world today. There are no churches because he knocks them down. Each year he wants to resign as the president, but congress begs him to stay. He has even rewritten the calendar and renamed the month of January to "Turkmenbashi." April is named after his mother.


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Michael Taylor
This man is dead
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Michael Taylor at 09:54PM, Feb 18th 2009.
Interesting Facts
Yes Turkmenbashi dies few weeks after this fact has been published. Rest in peace Turk :-)
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Interesting Facts at 05:48AM, Feb 21st 2009.
Zoli
just a quick question, and please excuse my ignorance...I am just interested. this is the first I hear of Turkmenistan, and i would like to please know what happens there.
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Zoli at 06:30AM, Jun 7th 2010.

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