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Ministry For National Security (Turkmenistan)
The Ministry for National Security or MNS ( Turkmen: Türkmenistanyň Milli howpsuzlyk ministrilgi) is the secret police agency for the government of Turkmenistan. It is composed largely of the remnants of KGB organs left over after the collapse of the Soviet Union; its functions remain largely the same as well. The MNB and the national police force are under the direction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Until 2002, it was known as the KNB (Committee for National Security). History The ministry was established by President Saparmurat Niyazov in September 1991 as the National Security Committee. It succeeded the Committee for State Security, or the KGB of the Turkmen SSR, which was the republican affiliate of the uniformed security agency of the USSR. Some units of the KNB were also former on the basis of a special purpose police unit of the Public Order Protection Directorate of the Interior Ministry of the Turkmen SSR. In June 2000, President Saparmurat Niyazov proposed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Committee For State Security Of The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
Committee for State Security of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (), or KGB of Turkmen SSR, was the security agency of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as Soviet Turkmenistan, the Turkmen SSR, TuSSR, Turkmenistan, or Turkmenia, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union located in Central Asia existed as a republic from 1925 to 199 ..., being the local branch of Committee for State Security of the USSR. It was succeeded in September 1991 by the Ministry for National Security. Chairmen * Vasily Vaskin (6 April 1954 – 23 June 1956) * Sergey Bannikov (3 August 1956 – 12 June 1959) * Dmitry Pischulin (12 June 1959 – 18 January 1965) * Leonid Korobov (18 January 1965 – 14 December 1973) * Yakov Kiselev (14 December 1973 – 19 December 1978) * Alexey Boyko (19 December 1978 – 21 May 1988) * Petr Arkhipov (21 May 1988 – 25 March 1991) * Dangatar Köpekow (25 March 1991 – September 1991) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geldymukhammed Ashirmukhammedov
Geldymukhammed Ashirmukhammedov () is a Turkmen general who served in the military, police and security forces of Turkmenistan. Early life and career He was born in 1957 in the Balkan Region of the Turkmen SSR. He graduated from Turkmen State University in 1979 with a degree in physics. From 1979 to 1982, he taught physics in the No.2 secondary school in the town of Cheleken (now Hazar). From 1982 to 1992 he occupied various positions within the Soviet KGB and the KGB of the Turkmen SSR. He graduated from the higher KGB courses first in Minsk in 1983 and later in Kiev in 1985. Turkmen government In 1992 he was transferred to the Office of the President of Turkmenistan. In the five years that followed, he served in various positions as an officer of the Presidential Security Service. In 1997, he was appointed to the post of Commander of the Turkmen Ground Forces, a position he would serve in until 2002. He was appointed deputy chairman of the Turkmen KNB in 2002. Interior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akmurad Kabulov
Major General Akmurad Nazarovich Kabulov (, ) is a Turkmen general and politician. Biography He was born in 1942 on the Bolshevik collective farm of the Moscow Raion of the Lebap Welayaty. In 1963 he graduated from the Turkmen Agricultural Institute, specializing in animal husbandry. From 1968 to 1970 she studied at the Higher School of the KGB (now the FSB Academy) in Moscow. Then he worked as the head of the Chardzhou Department of the National Security Committee of Turkmenistan (known as the KNB, which is the successor organization to the Soviet KGB), and then as the First Deputy Chairman of the KNB. From 1992 to 1999, he served as Head of the State Border Service of Turkmenistan and concurrently as the Commander of the Turkmen Border Troops. He was the first head of this agency. At the same time, he became a member of the National Security Council of Turkmenistan. In 1995, he hosted a summit of the Council of Commanders of the CIS Border Forces in Ashgabat, signing an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War In Afghanistan (2001–present)
War in Afghanistan, Afghan war, or Afghan civil war may refer to: *Conquest of Afghanistan by Alexander the Great (330 BC – 327 BC), the conquest of Afghanistan by the Macedonian Empire * Muslim conquests of Afghanistan, a series of campaigns in the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th centuries * Mongol campaigns in Central Asia (1216–1222), the conquest of Afghanistan by the Mongol Empire * Mughal conquests in Afghanistan (1526), the conquest by the Mughal Empire * Afghan-Sikh Wars (1748–1837), intermittent wars between the Afghans and the Punjabis. * Afghan Civil War (1863–1869), a civil war between Sher Ali Khan and Mohammad Afzal Khan's faction after the death of Dost Mohammad Khan * Anglo−Afghan Wars, wars conducted by British India in Afghanistan ** First Anglo−Afghan War (1839–1842) ** Second Anglo−Afghan War (1878–1880) ** Third Anglo−Afghan War (1919) * Panjdeh incident (1885), an incursion into Afghanistan by the Russian Empire during the era of the "Great Game" * A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September 11 Attacks
The September 11 attacks, also known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the third into the Pentagon (headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense) in Arlington County, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in a rural Pennsylvania field during a passenger revolt. The attacks killed 2,977 people, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in history. In response to the attacks, the United States waged the global war on terror over multiple decades to eliminate hostile groups deemed terrorist organizations, as well as the foreign governments purported to support them. Ringleader Mohamed Atta flew American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex at 8:46 a.m. Seventeen minutes later at 9:03 a.m., United Airlines Flig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Border Service Of Turkmenistan
The State Border Service (SBS) (, DSG) also commonly known by its paramilitary force as the Turkmen Border Troops () is a border guard agency of the Armed Forces of Turkmenistan. It is currently a public service department of the government of the country and is under the command of the Ministry for National Security of Turkmenistan. History The service was established on 11 August 1992, by order of President Saparmyrat Nyýazow, on the basis of the Soviet Border Troops in the Turkestan Military District. Until 1997, the Armed Forces of Turkmenistan included the Border Troops of the Ministry of Defense, which were then transformed into the State Border Service. It cooperated with Russian border guards who remained in country until 1999 as a result of a joint Russian–Turkmen agreement on the protection of the state border of Turkmenistan, which was signed in 1993. It slowly evolved to meet the standards of its counterparts, with the DSG being allowed to inspect goods and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary, Turkmenistan
Mary (; Cyrillic: Мары) is a city on an oasis in the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan, located on the Murgab River. It was founded in 1884 about from the ruins of the ancient abandoned great city of Merv and was actually named Merv until 1937. Mary is the capital city of Mary Region. In 2022, Mary had a population of 167,000, up from 92,000 in the 1989 census. Etymology Atanyýazow notes that the name "Muru" appears in Zoroastrian texts alongside the toponyms Sogd (Sogdia) and Bakhti (Bactria), and that the name "Margiana" appears carved into rocks at Behistun, Iran, dating back 2,500 years. Atanyyazow adds, "the name was used in the form Merv-ash-Shahizhan", with subsequent forms including Muru, Mouru, Margiana, Marg, Margush, Maru, Maru-shahu-jahan, Maru-Shahu-ezan, Merv, and Mary, and that some scholars interpret the word ''marg'' as "green field" or "grassland", noting that in Persian ''marg'' can mean a source of livestock. History The ancient city of Merv was an o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balkan Region
Balkan Region () is the westernmost of the five regions of Turkmenistan. Clockwise from north it borders Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan (north); two provinces of Turkmenistan (east), Iran (south), and the Caspian Sea (west). The capital city is Balkanabat, formerly known as Nebit Dag. The region's boundaries are identical to those of the former ''Krasnovodsk Oblast''', a Soviet-era province of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic with its capital in the city of Krasnovodsk. This oblast was liquidated and restored repeatedly in the 20th century, concluding with its abolition in 1988. However, the administrative boundaries of the region were restored in 1991 when Balkan Region was established with its capital being moved to Nebit Dag which was later renamed Balkanabat. The province covers 139,270 square kilometers and counts 529,895 residents (2022 estimate). A large minority of these are nomadic herding families.''Statistical Yearbook of Turkmenistan 2000-2004'', National Institute o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahal Province
Ahal Region (; from , also ) is one of five provinces of Turkmenistan. It is in the south-center of the country, bordering Iran and Afghanistan along the Kopet Dag Range. Its area is and population 886,845 (2022 census).''Statistical Yearbook of Turkmenistan 2000–2004'', National Institute of State Statistics and Information of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, 2005. Overview In 2000, Ahal Region accounted for 14% of Turkmenistan's population, 11% of the total number of employed, 23% of agricultural production (by value), and 31% of the country's total industrial production. Ahal's agriculture is irrigated by the Karakum Canal, which stretches all the way across the province from east to west, tracking Turkmenistan's southern border. Another water source is the Tejen River, which flows north from Afghanistan in the southeast corner of the province, passing through two large reservoirs south of the city of Tejen. Ahal is known for the Battle of Geok Tepe of 1881, today the site of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazar Atagaraev
Nazar may refer to: * Nazar (amulet), an amulet of stone or glass which is believed to protect against evil eye * Nazar (given name), a masculine given name Film and television * ''Nazar the Brave'', a 1940 Soviet comedy film directed by Amasi Martirosyan * ''Nazar'' (1991 film), a Bollywood film directed by Mani Kaul * ''Nazar'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film starring Meera and Ashmit Patel * ''Nazar'' (TV series) a 2018 Indian television series Music * Nazar (band), a Turkish band that entered the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 * ''Nazar'' (album), a 2015 album released by Joe Chawki and Hodge Gjonbalaj Other uses * Nazar, a subterranean fictional planet in Ludvig Holberg's 1741 novel ''Niels Klim's Underground Travels'' * Nazar, Navarre, a municipality in the province of Navarre, Spain See also * * Nazir (other) Nazir or Nazeer may refer to: * Nazir (title) * Nazir (name) * Nazirite In the Hebrew Bible, a nazirite or a nazarite ( ''Nāzīr'') is an Israelit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
