Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

Turkmen politician and president of Turkmenistan (2006–2022)

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    Born 1957
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    Dictator: One Crazy Job
    2013
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Updated 2026-06-09

A former dentist who oversaw one of the world's most closed states for sixteen years, running uncontested elections that delivered him 89%, then 97%, then 97.7% of the vote. In 2022 he handed the presidency to his son in Central Asia's first modern dynastic succession, then took the title "National Leader" and the chairmanship of the body now positioned abov

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Berdimuhamedow served as health minister and deputy cabinet chair under Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan's first president, before becoming acting president on Niyazov's death on 21 December 2006. He won the 2007 election without meaningful opposition and built an authoritarian system rights groups call one of the most repressive on earth, maintaining a cult of personality and unlimited control over public life alongside relatives and associates. Re-elected in 2012 and 2017 with margins topping 97%, he joined the People's Council in 2021 with a reported 100% of electors' votes and was unanimou…

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We are very thankful to Russia. Today, Turkmenistan has no pandemic and I would like to say that it is thanks to Russia.
Vadim Krasnoselsky (2021) cited in "Turkmen president says no COVID cases in his country thanks to Russian vaccines" on TASS, 28 December
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