Turkmenistan

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This is what people have to wear when they clean the streets of Ashgabat.

>>75381886

Wtf? Why?

>>75382201
nobody deserves to be identified as a cleaner

>>75382245

It's a honest job, sometimes pretty hard... Why are muslims so uncivilized anon?

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how do you go from this

>>75382706
>uncivilized
it's actually the opposite, "white" is a trend in turkmenstan, so everything should be white, even the shitskin face of the cleaner
>muslims
they have their own thing, that has nothing to do with being a musim, honestly

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to this

>>75382706
I don't know if thats even the reason, I just made it up senpai

dont really think turkemnistan is muslim, I thought they have a dictator with his own cult of personality and islam is really clamped down on

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>>75382201
Here's a quick rundown:

>Leader post-soviet independence was batshit insane megalomaniac
>Like NK-tier or somehow worse
>Wrote a book similar to NK's juche but for Turkmen, renamed arbitrary words like 'bread' to his mother's name, banned random shit like lipsynching
>erected a grand city of white marble and many monuments to himself
>keeps the city SPOTLESS using these street cleaners, who probably wear white to keep with the white marble thing or something
>dies, successor keeps most of the same policies while tightening some and relaxing others
>somehow nobody in the West knows about this actual meme of a country

so, in a nutshell, because the leaders are insane.

>>75382913
The state forces everyone to adhere to 'Turkmenbashi', which is like NK's Juche, and they've cracked down hard on Islam. However, there are reports of some 300 Turkmen ISIS fighters, though who the hell knows how they even found out about ISIS.

>>75382985
this is so cool
i want to visit it

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>>75383147
look at THIS thing

>>75382896
>>75382826
communism

>>75383312
so aesthetic

>>75380854
My ancestors :')

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>>75383147
Same
Problem is that you have to buy an expensive tour in order to visit, and they watch you like a hawk. It's so stupid that they'd build all of these marble cities and resorts and monuments and actively avoid capitalizing on it with such tourism restrictions. They recently tried to develop the tourism sector by building an ornate white marble resort, but the restrictions plus the fact that it was on the cold-year-round Capsian Sea and right near a PETROLEUM REFINERY doomed it to fail spectacularly.

>>75382985

Wow that's insane! And somehow fascinating... I'm going to read more about the country.

>>75383523
there aren't as many restrictions as in korea, tho. you can basically go to any place and village you want. just don't be an eyesore
it's really hard to get there, tho

>>75383369
For all its faults, Turkmenistan does have some bitchin' monuments and architecture. Even if it surpasses Russia levels of gaudiness.

>>75383464
What does Turkey think about Turkmenistan?

>>75383523
is it turkmenistan where they recently started getting tourists to the "gate to hell" thing and the president wanted to crack down because he said it was embarassing?

>>75383612
Good luck, hopefully there's more resources in Spanish than there are in English. I've pretty much hit a wall trying to learn more.

>>75383668
Oh, that does make it much better. Have you been?

>>75383686
haha yeah

fucking turkmenistan has better architecture than 99% of western cities

>>75383749
>Have you been?
i have not (
just saw some "journalism" about it

http://varlamov.ru/tag/Typкмeниcтaн

The most popular Russian blogger in Turkmenistan

http://varlamov.ru/1747480.html

Wow he has an english version actually

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>>75383934
Definitely true of colonial Anglo cities. Places like Slovenia and Czechia give Ashgabat a run for its money imo.

>>75384016
Aw damn. Do you have a link to what you read? I can't get enough of Turkmenistan; it's just so weird.

>>75384242
basically varlamov and lebedev
http://www.tema.ru/travel/turkmenistan
and this >>75384194

>>75383464
>My ancestors
nope

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>>75384194
Oh sweet, this is perfect. These buildings are really something else. Thanks!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhnama
hahah what the fuck, i need to find an english translation of this

>>75382985
>>75383312
>>75383523
>>75384194
>>75384242
>>75384363
looks neat, I like their style

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>>75384291
Thanks!! I figured ex-USSR folks would know much more about the place.

>>75382985
Interesting as fuck and first time I learn of it.

Wish I could go.

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>>75384605
I wonder who built all of these buildings and fixtures. They're so ornate; it must have taken ages to finish the city. Dubai doesn't even come close, and they had/have literal slave labor.

>>75384638
I learned about this country from /int/ too. It's crazy how little is reported on it when NK gets so much press exposure.

>>75385093
>I wonder who built all of these buildings and fixtures
Berdimuhamedow :^)

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>>75385303
true :)

>>75382985
Seem like a ripe enviroment for ISIS and islamists group establishing themself amongst the discontent? How much control does the goverment in Turkmenistan have over the regular person?

>>75385717
>Seem like a ripe enviroment
no
>How much control
heavy control, president have no interest in islamists ruining his dictatory utopia

>>75385717
>How much control does the goverment in Turkmenistan have over the regular person?
a lot. The president wrote a book about spiritual and philosophical guidance which all mosques have to display as prominently as the quran. You also have to answer test questions on it for your driving test. The people are very ideologically controlled

>>75383680
We don't think about them at all
Even Hırsızistan is more relevant here even though Turkmens supposed to be closer to us both culturally and genetically

>>75385717
Well, it's a police state that avoids exposing the population to outside influences (they even reject basic forms of foreign aid), so they've reportedly been pretty successful at suppressing anything more than cultural Islam and quashing any form of Islamic radicalism. In fact, the leader decreed that the Ruhnama be displayed next to the Quran in bookstores among other similar policies, and he inscribes shit like this into mosques:

>“Ruhnama is a Holy Book – Qur’an is Allah’s book”

There are reports of ethnic Turkmen in ISIS, but no word on which cunt they're from. Seems like it'd be really hard to get recruiting materials into the country and radicals out. Maybe through Afghanistan?

>>75386033
>Hırsızistan
where's that? I'm only getting results in moonspeak.

>>75386612
You mortals know it as Kyrgyzstan

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>>75386651
What do you know about Kyrgyzstan? That's a mysterious land too, just not as cool and interesting.

>>75384349
You really Kyrgyz, man? Ultra-rare, man.

>>75384194
Actually very good find russian anon.Thank for that link.

>>75386961
if you are punjabi you are also in the cool middle asia club

>>75386804
I had lived there when I was a kid for 3 years. Memories are blurred since I was too young. It was your classical ex-soviet country in early 2000s; ugly buildings, money loving people, corrupted government etc. However country had an amazing scenery in general, and I've seen the real version of so called "Turkish hospitality" there. It was kinda sad to see that people preferred to speak Russian than Kyrgyz though, there were children who didn't know their language in their homeland. Tribes were fighting each other for control of government, and I suppose it's still that way. They're mostly meme Muslims, I think hardcore Muslims were mostly Uzbeks living there

>>75386961
Apparently there are three (3) whole Kyrgyz posters now. Who knows where they came from, but they're here. Hopefully we get some regular posters from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Dagestan, and Chechnya eventually. Central Asia is fascinating.

>>75387358
Thanks for sharing. Central Asia has so much potential with all of its natural beauty and history, but it seems like most of its countries have a long way to go before they become nice to live in and visit.

>>75387358
Well russian is also wide spread in here too, but it's not like this language hasnt contributed nothing to our country, people can talk both languages and no one really objects that

>>75387657
I have high hopes for Kazakhstan, Nazarbayev is a pretty good leader

>>75387657
Well I guess Dagestan and Chechnya aren't Central Asia, but they have the same shroud of mystery so I hope they post here.

>>75387657
I rarely see prople who give a damn about central asia. Sometimes I think no one knows/cares about us, it seems that way. Thanks for your interest anyways.

>>75387657
>Dagestan, and Chechnya
>Central Asia is fascinating.
i wouldn't call them a part of central asia, and their culture kinda differs

>>75387037
Going by that logic every time you see a Pakistani flag there is a like a 50 percent chance he is in the cool middle Asian club.

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>Hırsızistan
cockroach pls
>genetically
Cockroash = greeks, arabs, armenian, some causcase people, slavs, little part turkmens
>What do you know about Kyrgyzstan?
mountain nigger
>>75386961
>You really Kyrgyz, man? Ultra-rare, man.
Some of your students have to study with us
Well understood girl from Hyderabad
Such a black skin

>>75387712
Yeah, it sounds like Kazakhstan out of all of them really has a chance to succeed, with Mongolia coming in second. If Iran had government that wasn't completely horrible and a convoluted code of respect, they could be a powerhouse too. The population is very educated and outputs incredible STEM workers.

>>75387763
No worries! It's the most exotic place on Earth imo, maybe because the West has completely forgotten that it exists and because it has such a rich history and so much natural beauty. Is Kazakhstan really on the up-and-up as is reported?

>>75387803
Yeah, I just tacked them on because they invoke the same feeling when I think about them, as mentioned here >>75387751

>>75387763
nah you guys are interesting, from a western perspective you're literally the most alien place in the world
Like in our media etc we get to learn a bit about pretty much everywhere in the world so we understand a lot of it to a degree, but i can't remember the last time i saw a news item about central asia

>>75388542
The last time I heard about Central Asia on the news (sans Iran and Afghanistan for obvious reasons) without actively searching for it is literally non-ironically when the Borat song played after a Kazakh won a sports event.

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>>75388030
Such a black skin indeed. Very black. Feels bad.

>>75388919
India, i've heard you guys bleach your skin for real. I could imagine how much money those corporations make off from sellings those creams. Do they even work?

>>75388868
We hold expo this year in our capital city, I have a bad feeling about this..

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Their leader seems to be really crazy

>>75389175
Дoмик в цeнтpe Acтaны гдe бaбкa oбклeилa пopтpeтaми Haзapбaeбa нe cнecли eщe?.

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>>75388919
This is disgusting; you guys really need to stop trying to imitate the Western standard of beauty. The end of the line here isn't pretty.

>>75389175
You think it might happen again? Hope not, that was beyond disrespectful. The woman it happened to handled it as gracefully as possible, though.

>>75389396
He живy в Acтaнe, дa и нoвocти нe cмoтpю ocoбo, и чтo зa дoмик тo?

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>>75389501

>>75389585
Bпepвыe тaкoй зaшквap вижy, cнecyт cpaзy жe кaк дeд пoмpeт. Дa и вeздe нaйдyтcя люди, кoтopым бeз идoлa нe живeтcя. B этoм caмoм Typкмeниcтaнe и пoхyжe дeлaли oбcтoяли c Typкмeнбaши. У нac тo c capкaзмoм, a y них нaвepнякa нeт

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>>75389585
All hail the supreme leader

>>75389585
for what purpose?

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They look like this

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And make things like this

>>75391295
effay

>>75382985
Link to pdf ?

>>75383312
Japanese RPG tier

>>75391689
it does right? something inbetween xeno and later ffs

>>75391627
Just a pdf about the country? I'll try to find one, but English-speaking resources are hard to come by, so I'm not sure if I'd be able to find a pdf. Here's an overview, but it kind of glosses over the crazy stuff - https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/cs/profiles/Turkmenistan-new.pdf

>>75391211
there's no place left for other potential leaders to put their stinky face on the wall

>>75392346
Who would want their face on a shack though

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>>75391211
>>75389585
I remember seeing something about this, I think she put them up to discourage them from demolishing the house. It's Illegal to deface images of the great leader or something like that.

>>75392105
I meant the link to the pdf of the book that the the insane leader wrote, but thanks I guess :DD

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>>75393928
Wow, that's a pretty sad explanation.

>>75393928
>>75394035
Oh, sorry bout that.

Here's book 1: https://inteltrends.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/ruh_1.pdf
book 2: https://inteltrends.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/ruh_2.pdf

I'll bet there's some crazy shit in here. I'd be fun to have an /int/ book club for this.

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>>75380854
I had a russian teacher with rusty english from turkmenistan

ive heard the dictator puts his face on yogurt pots and renamed some of the months after members of his family and himself

shit's fucked

also their turkic language is one of the most similar to turkish itself

>>75395003
Did your teacher tell you about what life was like there? Yeah, he renamed all the months and changed the word for 'bread' to his mother's name.

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>>75382985
>renamed arbitrary words like 'bread' to his mother's name, banned random shit like lipsynching
The absolute madman.

>>75384194
Holy shit, that's incredible. It's like the nation is ran by an all powerful Autistic ten year old.

>>75396236
The strangest part with places like Turkmenistan and North Korea is that the successor always carries on the crazy shit. How does there manage to be another person who buys into it as much as the last one when their behavior and policies are *that* strange?

>>75396593
Who knows man, who knows.
These photos are amazing, though.
Something straight out of Minecraft with a lot of these buildings.

Real turks, not the roach kind.

>>75380854
Central Asian North Korea don't know much else but most likely have the same food culture as the rest of us.

Also since no one brought it up the name of the country is very stupid since Turkmen means I am Turk then Turkmenistan means Land of the I am Turk's and if you were to say I am turkmen in a turkic language it would be men turkmenmen directly translated that means I am I am I am Turk

>>75396878
Have you checked out the links that the russkies posted, e.g. http://varlamov.ru/1747480.html ? They have some pretty unreal photos.

>>75396970
What's life like in Uzbekistan? There aren't many countries that are more obscure.

>Also since no one brought it up the name of the country is very stupid since Turkmen means I am Turk then Turkmenistan means Land of the I am Turk's and if you were to say I am turkmen in a turkic language it would be men turkmenmen directly translated that means I am I am I am Turk
Wow, that is really dumb.

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>>75395744
no never metioned it actually, it was a missed opportunity, i'll probably never meet another person from there

>changed the word for 'bread' to his mother's name
fug

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>>75398668
Aw damn, you missed out on a great opportunity. Hopefully some day a refugee will come on here to talk about it.

>>75387763
I love central asia and I hope one day I could visit the 5 stans

>>75400010
One day Argentina, I believe in you