Saparmurat Niyazov
Politician
1940 – 2006
Who was Saparmurat Niyazov?
Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov was a Turkmen politician who served as the leader of Turkmenistan from 1985 until his death in 2006. He was First Secretary of the Turkmen Communist Party from 1985 until 1991 and continued to lead Turkmenistan for 15 years after independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Turkmen media referred to him using the title "His Excellency Saparmurat Türkmenbaşy, President of Turkmenistan and Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers". His self-given title Türkmenbaşy, meaning Leader of Turkmen, referred to his position as the founder and president of the Association of Turkmens of the World.
Foreign media criticized him as one of the world's most totalitarian and repressive dictators, highlighting his reputation of imposing his personal eccentricities upon the country, which extended to renaming months, which had been borrowed Russian words, after members of his family. Global Witness, a London-based human rights organization, reported that money under Niyazov's control and held overseas may be in excess of US$3 billion, of which between $1.8–$2.6 billion was supposedly situated in the Foreign Exchange Reserve Fund at Deutsche Bank in Germany.
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- Born
- Feb 19, 1940
Gypjak - Also known as
- Сапармурат Ниязов
- Сапармурат Аннаниязов
- Туркменбаши
- Сердар
- Вечно Великий Сапармурат Туркменбаши
- Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov
- Saparmyrat Tu̇rkmenbashy
- Children
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
- Nationality
- Turkmenistan
- Profession
- Education
- Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University
- Died
- Dec 21, 2006
Ashgabat
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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