What the fuck goes on here?

What the fuck goes on here?

So I know they have a dictatorship, but what else?

They're called Turkmenistan, but what do they look like?

What about their culture?

Religion?

Do they have diaspora?

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Central Asian North Korea lite

>They're called Turkmenistan, but what do they look like?

Turkic Asians

>What about their culture?

Central Asian shit, their food is probably delicious

>Religion?

I might be wrong but I think that religion is actually repressed in Turkmenistan. Most people are probably nominally Muslim

>Do they have diaspora?

There are a bunch of them in Afghanistan and Iran

Other than that I dunno m8, pic related is a tourist attraction since it never goes out.

Here's an album of pics that some redditor (yes I know) took on a trip there, they're about a year old I think.

imgur.com/a/VMbQ7

>that album
that's really cool actually
who the fu*k cares about browsing reddit

>Culture
Central Asian/Turkic culture, likely resembles that of Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Iran and Afghanistan. Probably eat lots of lamb and bread. It was part of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union so some elements of Russian culture and very likely there.

>Religion
They're Muslim but not terribly religious. The dictator created a new 'holy book' and thinks himself as some sort of religious figure

>Diaspora
Iran mostly, maybe some in Russia

It's quite poor and oppressive, they built new cities that are empty for tourist that don't exist. Likely better of under its colonial ruler, quite nice flag though.

used to be a turkmen qt in a parallel class at my uni

>They're called Turkmenistan, but what do they look like?
Google is your friend
>What about their culture?
Standard Central Asian fare. Imagine Russia, but with less snow and with more Islam.
>Religion?
Islam
>Do they have diaspora?
Of course they do

>but what do they look like?
Persians with a bit Mongol looking
>What about their culture?
Persians pretending to be Oghuz Turks
>Religion?
yes
>Do they have diaspora?
Somehow, 10mil of Turkmens live near the border of Turkey and Iraq like as Kurds do.

real turks live there

You got it wrong, that was a Turk, man

>Who the fuck cares about browsing reddit
Fags who think 4chin is a secret cool kids club.

>Turkmen
>Türkmenistan merkezi Aziýada bir döwletdir. Goňşy döwletler: Owganystan, Eýran Yslam Respublikasy, Gazagystan we Özbegistan.
>Türkmenistan Merkezi Aziýanyň günbatar böleginde demirgazyk giňişligiň 35,08-nji we 42,48-nji, gündogar uzynlygynyň 52,27-nji we 66,41-nji graduslarynyň aralygynda, Köpetdagyň demirgazygynda, günbatarynda Hazar deňzi, gündogarynda Amyderýa aralygynda ýerleşýär.


>Turkish
>Türkmenistan, Merkezi Asya'da bir devlettir. Komşu devletler: Afganistan, İran islam Cumhuriyeti, Kazakistan ve Özbekistan.
>Türkmenistan Merkezi Asyanın günbatımı bölgesinde kara genişliği 35,08'inci ve 42-48'inci gündoğumu boylamının 52,27'inci ve 66,41'inci enlemleri aralığında, Köpekdağının sınırında, günbatımında Hazar denizi, Gündoğumunda Amu-Derya aralığında yerleşir.


Basically they're speaking Turkish with dick inside their mouth.

Here's some information:
tema.ru/eng/travel/turkmenistan-1/

>Turkish with dick inside their mouth
kek.
but really alike overall.

>GERMAN HUMOUR

All these answers and more at www.google.com

muh ancestors :/
complete shithole you shouldnt worry yourself about

After USSR Turkmenistan was South-West Korea with gas and golden statues of their glorious leader in full size. The glorious leader had written a book on traditional muslim living (he was a communist president of Turkmenistan and state atheist for many years before), renamed months of year (one of them named for his holy book, the other for his mother, for example), opressed Russians and sold gas. Then he died, and things got somewhat better for everybody. Still sells gas through Russia. The fact is Turkmenistan will be destroyed if it tries to sell the gas through Iran or Azerbaijan or smth, plus Russians are still the technical elite and without them gas will not flow.
Turkmenistan is an uninhabitable desert first traversed by imperial trans-Caspian railway in late XIX century and terraformed during Stalin reign after building artificial rivers diverting the flow from Amudarya. The project was flawed as its one of the hottest deserts and irrigation requires a lot of water. Much of it is wasted due to engineering mistakes, and became much worse after USSR when every local chief decided to make his own private canal of utterly inferior and wasteful "technology" even ancient Iranians would smirk at. Especially Iranians who long adopted the technology from Central Asia aboriginals 3500 years ago and perfected it. Sadly the Turkmen wasted Iranian tech, and then made Cockroaches to top.

It's North Korea tier but the EU and US like them because they have lots of gas.

the old* dictator, turkmenbashy is long dead
turkmens in ıraq are closer to anatolian turks than anything else. all oghuz turks were turkmen at one point, the names can be confusing.
also nice memes, kys

Are the names only confusing in English or in Turkish too? What do you call Iraqi Turkmens vs Turkmenistan Turkmens?

in turkish as well, but since we know what they are (at least, if you are not retarded you should know) we can differentiate easly between them. we call each group Türkmen, but when we need to specify we say Irak Türkmenleri, Suriye Türkmenleri etc (but we don't use Türkmenistan Türkmenleri, as it's unnecessary, since formally the word refers to that, or the historical "Türkmen")